There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards the universal. The struggle of the individual against the universal may be seen both in… — 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
