Abstraction Quote by Piet Mondrian

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is…

— Jonathan Ive

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only…

— Piet Mondrian

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against…

— Fernand Leger

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of…

— Fernand Leger

I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind…

— Arnold Friberg

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

— Jim Hodges

I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view…

— Yves Klein

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

— Piet Mondrian

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

— Henri Matisse

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

— Marc Chagall

It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands.…

— Wolf Kahn