Mondrian Quotes: top 41 famous quotes about Mondrian

Mondrian Quotes & Sayings

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Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing! — Piet Mondrian

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture. — Piet Mondrian

Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances. — Piet Mondrian

No painting is more replete than Mondrian's. — Samuel Beckett

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form. — Piet Mondrian

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color. — Piet Mondrian

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. — Piet Mondrian

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms. — Piet Mondrian

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. — Piet Mondrian

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic. — Piet Mondrian

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. — Piet Mondrian

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. — Piet Mondrian

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure. — Piet Mondrian

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody. — Piet Mondrian

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind? — Piet Mondrian

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms. — Piet Mondrian

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within. — Piet Mondrian

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. — Piet Mondrian

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual. — Piet Mondrian

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective. — Piet Mondrian

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position. — Piet Mondrian

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty. — Piet Mondrian

Art is the path to being spiritual. — Piet Mondrian

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him). — Piet Mondrian

Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life. — Piet Mondrian

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. — Piet Mondrian

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. — Piet Mondrian

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves. — Piet Mondrian

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right. — Piet Mondrian

Curves are so emotional. — Piet Mondrian

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. — Piet Mondrian

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out. — Piet Mondrian

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. — Piet Mondrian

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual. — Piet Mondrian

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting. — Piet Mondrian

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit. — Piet Mondrian