Max Bill

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

— Max Bill

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

— Max Bill

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

— Max Bill

And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is…

— Max Bill

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer…

— Max Bill

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and…

— Max Bill

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form…

— Max Bill

I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea,…

— Max Bill

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without…

— Max Bill