All Piet Mondrian Quotes
- The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Art
- The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure. Basic
- Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms. Color
- Intellect confuses intuition. Confuses
- All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line… All
- The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. Abstraction
- 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… Art
- The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective. Achieve
- I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. Abstract
- The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture. Always Obscured
- To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. Approach
- I don't want pictures, I want to find things out. Find
- By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. Architecture
- The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life. Enjoyment
- This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its… Abstraction
- Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality. Abstraction
- The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. Actually Always
- Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that… Action
- 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… Crossing
- The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms. Color