Artist Quotes by Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

— Piet Mondrian

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age…

— Piet Mondrian

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the…

— Piet Mondrian

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means…

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression…

— Piet Mondrian

“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater…

— Piet Mondrian

Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge…

— Piet Mondrian

The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude…

— Piet Mondrian

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.…

— Piet Mondrian

Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness…

— Piet Mondrian

It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought…

— Piet Mondrian

If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must…

— Piet Mondrian