Piet Mondrian Quotes
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Piet 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
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
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 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
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
— Piet Mondrian
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
— 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 relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
— Piet Mondrian
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
— 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
Art is the path to being spiritual.
— 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
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
— Piet Mondrian
Curves are so emotional.
— 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
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
— Piet Mondrian
I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.
— Piet Mondrian
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
— Piet Mondrian
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
— Piet Mondrian
