"Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to……" — Piet Mondrian
"Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity."
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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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More Crossing Quotes
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the…
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the…
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Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an…
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I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I…
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