"It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical……" — Piet Mondrian
"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 rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true."
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Piet Mondrian
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33 Quotes by Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian has 33 quotes on this site.
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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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