12 Quotes & Sayings By Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter who worked in the abstract expressionism movement. He is best known for his paintings "Composition No. 1" (1919), "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue" (1921), and "Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow" (1922). He was a leading member of the De Stijl group and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of modern art.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially...
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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron Piet Mondrian
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I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. Piet Mondrian
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Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty. Piet Mondrian
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The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. Piet Mondrian
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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
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The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time. Piet Mondrian
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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
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I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. Piet Mondrian
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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
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Art is the path to being spiritual. Piet Mondrian
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Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing. Piet Mondrian