Fundamental Quality Quotes by Piet Mondrian

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Piet Mondrian has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
• The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
• Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
• Intellect confuses intuition.
• All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means…
• 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 only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.
• I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality…
• The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
• To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the…
• I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

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