The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective… — 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
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