Modern Artist Quotes by 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

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

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness…

— Piet Mondrian

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

— Piet Mondrian