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> [The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/the-only-problem-in-art-is-to-achieve-a-balance-between-the/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/818/piet-mondrian-14779_achieve_the-only-problem-in-art-is-to-achieve-a_222047.jpg)

> [The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/the-only-problem-in-art-is-to-achieve-a-balance-between-subjective/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

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## More 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/to-approach-the-spiritual-in-art-one-will-make-as-little-use-as/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/the-more-basic-the-color-the-more-inward-the-more-pure/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/nature-or-that-which-i-see-inspires-me-puts-me-as-with-any-painter-in/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/the-only-problem-in-art-is-to-achieve-a-balance-between-the/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/evolution-is-always-the-work-of-pioneers-and-their-followers-are/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [ The essence of painting has actually always been to make it \[the universal\] plastically perceptible through colour and line. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/the-essence-of-painting-has-actually-always-been-to-make-it-the/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/i-think-you-too-recognize-the-important-relationship-between/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/the-truly-modern-artist-is-aware-of-abstraction-in-an-emotion-of/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/if-you-follow-nature-you-will-not-be-able-to-vanquish-the-tragic-in/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/i-don-t-want-pictures-i-want-to-find-things-out/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/all-painting-the-painting-of-the-past-as-well-as-of-the-present-shows/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/why-should-art-continue-to-follow-nature-when-every-other-field-has/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/the-only-problem-in-art-is-to-achieve-a-balance-between-subjective/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/observing-sea-sky-and-stars-i-sought-to-indicate-their-plastic/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

> [It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/it-is-a-task-of-art-to-express-clear-vision-of-reality/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

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