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  • This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.

    "Letters of the great artists" by Richard Friedenthal, translated by Daphne Woodward, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 236), 1963.