- Away
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- Expressed
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Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
- Happiness
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The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.
- Contemplation
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I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.
- Matter
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By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
- Greatest Importance
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One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
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I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
- Painting
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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
- Feel
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I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.
- Boogie
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Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'
- Degree
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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
- Freedom
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The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
- Beauty
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Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.
- Balance
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It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.
- Clarification
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.
- Plastic
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