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Piet Mondrian


Dutch
March 7, 1872
Artist
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It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.


Piet Mondrian
Tags: Make Many Right
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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.


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The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).


Piet Mondrian
Tags: Freedom Man Him
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
Piet Mondrian
Tags: Things Which Only
Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.
Piet Mondrian
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Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.
Piet Mondrian
Tags: Always Been Never
We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.
Piet Mondrian
Tags: Life Which Us
All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
Piet Mondrian
Tags: Only Well Too
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
Tags: Beauty Life Then
The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper.
Piet Mondrian
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One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
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