Max Bill Quotes

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• I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation,…
• We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from…
• And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch…
• The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
• Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but…
• I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.
• Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate…
• Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give…

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