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