In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, … - Theo van Doesburg

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Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Theo van Doesburg

In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.

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We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

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

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The square is to us what the cross was to the early Christians.

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

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Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.

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