Quotes by Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian

All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Art

Mean

Past

Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

Art

Men

Practice

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

Color

Planes

Size

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

Discovery

Expression

Reality

Curves are so emotional.

Curves

Emotion

Emotional

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

Artist

Color

Lines

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

Degrees

Numbers

Pioneers

I don’t want pictures, I want to find things out.

Want

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,’sacred fire’and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

Fire

Hate

Inspiration

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Quotes by Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian

All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

Curves are so emotional.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

I don’t want pictures, I want to find things out.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,’sacred fire’and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

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