"If the universal is the essential, then it……" — Piet Mondrian
"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 greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. the more this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines."
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Piet Mondrian
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33 Quotes by Piet Mondrian
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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
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The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
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Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
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Intellect confuses intuition.
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All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential…
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
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I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most…
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The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.
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I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the…
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The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from…
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To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed…
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I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.
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