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 work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art as language…in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
