Nature's ready-made images

Olga Rozanova, Green Stripe, 1917

"The art of painting is the decomposition of natures’ ready-made images into the distinctive properties of the common material found within them and the creation of different images by means of the interrelation of these properties; this interrelation is established by the creator’s individual attitude. . . . Nature is a subject as much as any subject set for painting in abstracto and is the point of departure, the seed, from which a work of art develops."

Olga Rosanova – The Bases of the New Creation 1913

Olga Rozanova wrote this almost 100 years ago. Nothing is new - it's what I've been trying to say - Olga has said it already and much better than I could have said it. Thank you Olga Rozanova!