Michel Seuphor - To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind of rudimentary alphabet by means of which everything could be expressed with the most limited means. They evoked prehistoric runes and the early I-Ching, or Book of Changes.

- Michel Seuphor

source: "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., p. 98, 1964.

topic: Book, Mean, Sky, Prehistoric, Runes