Artist Quotes by Theo van Doesburg

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

— Theo van Doesburg

When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit,…

— Theo van Doesburg

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

— Theo van Doesburg

In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style…

— Theo van Doesburg

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

— Theo van Doesburg

While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in four dimensions, in the…

— Theo van Doesburg

For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael,…

— Theo van Doesburg

Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and…

— Theo van Doesburg

Art as language…in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

— Theo van Doesburg

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was…

— Theo van Doesburg

The line has almost become a work of art in itself.

— Theo van Doesburg

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.

— Theo van Doesburg

The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a…

— Theo van Doesburg

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

— Theo van Doesburg

There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed…

— Theo van Doesburg