Piet Mondrian Quotes
Top 40 wise famous quotes and sayings by Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Piet Mondrian on Wise Famous Quotes.
Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.
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.
Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
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.
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
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.
All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.