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Piet Mondrian
Dutch
Artist
Born:
Mar 7
,
1872
Died:
Feb 1
,
1944
Art
Become
He
Individual
Man
Time
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Christien Meindertsma
Florentijn Hofman
M. C. Escher
Saskia de Brauw
Theo Jansen
Vincent Van Gogh
The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
Piet Mondrian
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Words
Impossible
Language
Will
Difficult
Minds
Ourselves
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Obliged
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Well
Make
Himself
Least
Understood
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Conventional
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Therefore
Even
Express
The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.
Piet Mondrian
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Unreal
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