The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously)… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind? — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image