Piet Mondrian Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The more basic the colour, the more inward, the purer.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

Intellect confuses intuition.

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Curves are so emotional.

It is a task of art to express a clear vision of reality.

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

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

The only problem in the art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

The relation of colour and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

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

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.