[jazz and Neo-Plasticism are] highly revolutionary phenomena: they are destructive constructive. They do not destroy the actual content of form, but rather deepen form only in order to elevate it to a new order. They break the bonds of 'form as individuality' in order to make possible a universal unity.

In: 'De Jazz en de Neo-plastiek', Piet Mondriaan, 'i 10', 1927 pp. 421-427