"The Figurative kills and the Abstract gives live!" Alexandre Guillaume
"Who takes all in Figurative is at the same time without intelligence and without humour. Who, on the contrary, is able to see the second degree which hides behind Abstract is not only intelligent but generous.
This capacity is what we call “the thought”, i.e. Art to make it go beyond the colors and the forms by the colors and by the forms.
Our life is often deprived of it. Hence the narrow-minded materialist, without humour, even violent side of our human relations.
Also it is important to put the thought back in our lives by criticizing the Figurative, in order not to take the things as they are painted."
Alexandre Guillaume
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential."
- Wassily Kandinsky
