Art Quote by Piet Mondrian Download Open image “Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?” — Piet Mondrian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Behinds Fields Left Nature Should
Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world. — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image