Quotes by Piet Mondrian - Page 2

As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Appearance
Tradition
Element
Further
Precisely
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Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Brain
Feels
Intuition
Links
Pure
Calculate
Simply
Enlightens
Thinks
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If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Distinguished
Skills
Clearly
Demands
Naturalistic
Paying
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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 / Painter
Evolution
No Doubt
Serving
Temporary
Base
Elite
Masses
Prevent
Thus
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I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Abstraction
Concise
Painter
Urgent
Stopped
Naturalistic
Progressing
Urgent Need
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I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Boogie
Broadway
Definite
Satisfied
Too Much
Picture
Quite
Too
Old
Still
Insofar
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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 / Painter
Evolution
Importance
Path
Plastic
Speak
Advance
Greatest Importance
Note
Reveals
Rightly
True Way
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The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Nevertheless
Reconstruction
Representation
Sky
Specific
Starry
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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.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Abstract
All Things
Mathematical
Representation
Expressed
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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.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Misery
Bestial
Strengthened
Undergo
Sympathize
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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 / Painter
Degrees
Term
Scale
Proper
Thus
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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 / Painter
Beauty
Aesthetic
Emotion
Recognizing
Satisfaction
Uniting
Beauty Life Art
Greatest
Basis
Essential
Gives
Therefore
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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 / Painter
Teacher
Modern Art
Movement
Admired
Gogh
Impressionist
Seek
True Way
Van
Van Gogh
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Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Sea
Sky
Stars
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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.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Continuing
Ordinary
Receptive
Terrain
Finer
Leads
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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.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Relationship
Colour
Position
Principal
Regard
Thing
Why
Only
Them
Through
Exist
Dimension
Expressed
Oppose
Other
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The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Positive
Action
Balance
Eternal
Loss
Negative
States
Revolutions
Achieved
Bring
Cause
Explain
Follow
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True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Appearance
Construction
Destruction
Intention
Melody
Natural
Painting
Pure
Rhythm
True
Conceive
Dynamic
Equivalent
Mine
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The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Art
Ordinary
Path
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It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Balance
Equilibrium
Movement
Plastic
Reality
True
Attained
Established
Through
Clearer
Dynamic
Unequal
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The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Abstract
Conception
Individual
Plastic
Traditional
Unreal
Blurred
Identified
Interpretations
Word
Limited
Meaning
Meaning Of
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The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Conventional
Impossible
Obliged
Understood
Adopt
Advanced
Express
Minds
Therefore
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The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Art
Mirrors
Reality
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Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Confused
Independent
Reflection
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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 / Painter
Expression
Ideas
Lines
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Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Expression
Opposites
Two
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If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Art
Attachment
Real
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The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Clarification
Doomed
Equilibrium
Human Life
Importance
Plastic
Life Time Art
Life Art Time
More And More
Notwithstanding
Reveals
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What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Doe
Sky
Use
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Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Appreciate
Attempting
Boogie
Equilibrium
Former
Incapacity
Movement
Struggle
Brought
Continuous
Dynamic
Express
Nearer
Produced
Statement
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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 / Painter
Nature
Emotional
Inspire
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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.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Degrees
Numbers
Pioneers
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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 / Painter
Art
Curves
Strong
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I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Accomplished
Colour
Cutting
Mutual
Volume
Destroy
Intact
Plane
Remained
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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.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Art
Men
Practice
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Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.
Piet Mondrian / Painter
Art
Life
Giving
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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 / Painter
Art
Philosophy
Spiritual
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