Van Doesburg Quotes

#1. Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. 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 the world war and in modern art.

Theo Van Doesburg

#3. Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

John Breaux

#4. In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Howard Thurman

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

Theo Van Doesburg

#6. It's just like unraveling a tangle when you don't know where the knots are, and you don't know what the web looks like. But as you work on one section, it is connected to everything.

Kamailelauli'I Rafaelovich

#7. 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

#8. People have to do what they want to do.

J Mascis

#9. There was no hiding when you had a face all up in your love glove.

Belle Aurora

#10. 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 based upon calculations of measure and number.

Theo Van Doesburg

#11. When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality.

Theo Van Doesburg

#12. While the expressive possibilities of Neoplasticism are limited to two dimensions (the plane), Elementarism realizes the possibility of plasticism in four dimensions, in the field of time-space.

Theo Van Doesburg

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

Theo Van Doesburg

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

Theo Van Doesburg

#15. Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Will Eisner

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

Theo Van Doesburg

#17. We enjoy the sense of God's presence in the midst of suffering here and now. I have talked to people who are experiencing deep pain or severe difficulties, and they have said, I feel God is so close to me.

Billy Graham

#18. I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

Paul Allen

#19. Every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.

Theo Van Doesburg

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

Theo Van Doesburg