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Piet Mondrian Quotes

I don’t want pictures, I want to find things out Picture Quote #1

Curves are so emotional Picture Quote #1

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody Picture Quote #1

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects Picture Quote #1

This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within Picture Quote #1

Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things Picture Quote #1

It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true Picture Quote #1

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms Picture Quote #1

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter’s conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art Picture Quote #1

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture Picture Quote #1

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To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual Picture Quote #1

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort Picture Quote #1

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. the more this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines Picture Quote #1

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position Picture Quote #1

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In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual Picture Quote #1

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I don’t want pictures, I want to find things out (Piet Mondrian Quotes) Curves are so emotional (Piet Mondrian Quotes) Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody (Piet Mondrian Quotes) 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 Quotes) This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour (Piet Mondrian Quotes) 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 (Piet Mondrian Quotes) I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within (Piet Mondrian Quotes) Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things (Piet Mondrian Quotes) It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true (Piet Mondrian Quotes) Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms (Piet Mondrian Quotes) I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter’s conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art (Piet Mondrian Quotes) The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture (Piet Mondrian Quotes) To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual (Piet Mondrian Quotes) In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort (Piet Mondrian Quotes) The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms (Piet Mondrian Quotes) 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 (Piet Mondrian Quotes) If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. the more this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines (Piet Mondrian Quotes) The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position (Piet Mondrian Quotes) In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual (Piet Mondrian Quotes)

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