Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he… — 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… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
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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