“Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.” ArtPhilosophyLastsFineArt IsConsequenceFine Arts Author:Max Bill
“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, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony.” ArtIdeasInfluenceHarmonyMoodInstanceConcentrationEndeavorObserversPositive InfluenceActivation Author:Max Bill
“We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.” ArtNaturalResourcesBasesWorks Of ArtConcreteInherentAbstractionTransformingBorrowingNatural Phenomena Author:Max Bill
“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 us on astral flights which soar into unknown and still uncharted regions of the imagination.” ThinkingWayArtStillsReasonFactsAbleImaginationArt IsBasesDespiteFlightMathematicalRegionsSoarWay Of ThinkingUncharted Author:Max Bill
“The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.” HumansArtVisionTerritoryDeniedOrbit Book:Max Bill Source: Max Bill
“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 also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.” IdeasFormValuesTakenCreatingIntuitionSurfaceSubstanceVisibleYieldTranscendingConjecture Book:Max Bill Source: Max Bill
“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 to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.” ThinkingWayIdeasTrainUnityMathematicalWay Of ThinkingComprehensivePrerequisitesTrain Of Thought Author:Max Bill
