Dutch - Artist | March 7, 1872 - February 1, 1944
I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.
Piet Mondrian
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I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.
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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.
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Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
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Art is the path to being spiritual.
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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.
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It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.
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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.
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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.
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The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
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I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.
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Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
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