God is dead. A world disintegrated. […] An epoch disintegrates. A thousand-year-old culture disintegrates. There are no columns and no supports, no foundations  any more – they have all been blown up. […] Above is below, below is above. The transvaluation of values came to pass. Christianity was struck down. The principles of logic, of centrality, unity, and reason were unmasked as postulates of a power-craving theology. The meaning of the world disappeared. The purpose of the world – its reference to a supreme being who keeps the world together – disappeared. 

Hugo Ball, lecture on Kandinsky