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Theo van Doesburg Quotes: We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
         

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.


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Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.



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To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.



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...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.



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The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.



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