Piet Mondrian Quotes

Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
Dutch Artist
Born: Mar 7, 1872
Died: Feb 1, 1944
Art Become He Individual Man Time
Related authors: Christien Meindertsma Florentijn Hofman M. C. Escher Saskia de Brauw Theo Jansen Vincent Van Gogh
Art is the path to being spiritual. Piet Mondrian
Art Spiritual Path Being
Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. Piet Mondrian
Abstract Art Art Pure Neither Abstract Dogmatic Just Decorative
Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances. Piet Mondrian
Reality Confusion Only Because Us Appearances Appears
It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right. Piet Mondrian
Picture Important Pictures Make Many Right
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. Piet Mondrian
Life Art Beauty Recognizing Gives Emotion Greatest Aesthetic Essential Then Us Therefore Satisfaction Uniting Universal Basis
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him). Piet Mondrian
Freedom Man Harmony Him Equilibrium Due Inherent Universal Desire
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction. Piet Mondrian
Progressing More Never Abstraction Toward Economy Felt Concise Began Very Quickly Stopped Form Urgent Urgent Need Means Naturalistic Painter Expression Need
I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. Piet Mondrian
Time Architecture Abolish Contemplation Want
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves. Piet Mondrian
Words Language Static Ourselves Only Name Which Express Designate Things Need
I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions. Piet Mondrian
Problem Destruction Too Destroy Mutual Brought Only Remained Through Colour Volume Also Within Making Still Intact Came Lines Accomplished Plane Planes Cutting Means Use Now
The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature. Piet Mondrian
Nature Natural Sky Reconstruction Given Nevertheless Make Without Does Am Representation Which Working Now Specific Thing Starry
Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing! Piet Mondrian
Nature Nothing Says Given He May Who Whoever Right Starting
Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious. Piet Mondrian
Life Art Theatre Dance Will Become Harmonious Harmony Disappear Along Tragedy Itself Dominating Movement Etc Expression
Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks. Piet Mondrian
Together Intelligence Thought Pure Become Intuition Simply Calculate Feels Does Brain Up Links Which Thinks Enlightens
Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone. Piet Mondrian
Teacher Art Alone Experience First Saw Way Van Van Gogh Admired Seek Only Had Knew True True Way Impressionist Gogh Modern Modern Art Movement Little Works
As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things. Piet Mondrian
Art Natural Old Further New Because Female Tradition Precisely Moves Anything Appearance Each Element Away Things
It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions. Piet Mondrian
Art Balance Reality Become Only Through Attained True Clearer Equilibrium Equivalent Unequal Established Movement Dynamic Plastic Expression
All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. Piet Mondrian
Thought Painting Dissolved Individual Form Means Plastic Universal
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual. Piet Mondrian
Man Mirror Become Only Individual He Transcend Conscious Universal
I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions. Piet Mondrian
Work Sense Those Finer Only Shall Generally Develop Leads Know Terrain Known Because Within How Am Continuing Different Ordinary Which Regions Who Deep Present Receptive
The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper. Piet Mondrian
Spiritual Scale Degrees Physical Spirit Proper Only Both Thus Towards Term Also Used Many Away
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit. Piet Mondrian
Matter Spirit Laws Also Surface Closer Which Turning Inner
Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.' Piet Mondrian
Work Me Struggle Victory Boogie Statement Brought Attempting Equilibrium Am Continuous Did Just Movement Want Wanted Dynamic Which Former Produced Incapacity Many Express Nearer Appreciate
The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us. Piet Mondrian
Life Art Time Great Humanity Become Living Clarification More More And More Through Importance Although Equilibrium Reveals Human Doomed Us Human Life Notwithstanding Plastic Based
The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal. Piet Mondrian
Art Other Individual Toward Hand While Helps Downward Universal Brings Raise
Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence. Piet Mondrian
Made Objectivity Only Individual Leap Exist Existence Subjectivity Ceases Universal
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