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Art Quotes by Piet Mondrian
- The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
- All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line…
- The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
- 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…
- The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.
- To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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