Despite the fact that Moholy-Nagy was ill with leukemia in the final years of his life, he continued to write, paint and move ahead with the educational program of his Institute of Design, a school in Chicago founded on Bauhaus ideals.

I believed that abstract art not only registers
contemporary problems, but projects a desirable
future order, unhampered by any secondary
meaning... Abstract art, I thought, creates new
types of spatial relationships, new forms, new
visual laws--basic and simple--as the visual
counterpart to a more purposeful cooperative human
society. (L. Moholy-Nagy, from "Abstract of an
Artist," 1944, reprinted in K. Passuth, Moholy-Nagy,
London, 1985, p. 364)