Piet Mondrian Quotes

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• Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of…
• If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the…
• Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.
• The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
• In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
• Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.
• In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an…
• Curves are so emotional.
• It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and…
• 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…
• Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to…
• Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both…
• The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

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