nude with long legs Print

The purpose of my painting is not to reproduce nature as we see it directly or an illusion in the picture, nor to create any non-painterly feelings or ideas. The material is quite unimportant, the simplest can become the most wonderful work of art. The form is the content, is the means and the end. It does not depend on the correctness and correctness of the forms (correctness is often downright incorrectness in art) but on a superior, profound, living conception of them. The picture must arise similarly to nature itself. It should be an analogy to nature and not a simple copy. One must abbreviate nature, by simplification and reduction to essentials. Through this the picture becomes strong and true. It should reflect an organic whole of the world.