Piet Mondrian Short Quotes

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

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

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

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I very much like Arp's things. I consider him the only 'pure' artist after Neo/Plasticism.

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

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

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The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

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We arrive at a portrayal of other things, such as the laws governing matter. These are the great generalities – Which do not change.

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I am searching for the proper harmony of rhythm and unchanging proportion, as I wrote in the article. And I cannot tell you how difficult it is.

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The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

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Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

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In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

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A form must be of its own time if it is to be recognized: one cannot relate to what one is not or does not have – Thus all that is of the past is to be rejected.

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It is of small importance whether De Stijl still exists as a 'group'; a new style was born, a new aesthetic created; it needs only to be understood – and cultivated.

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Now the only problem is to destroy these lines also through mutual opposition...[note under his letter]: I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.

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The artist make things move, and is moved. He is policeman, motor car, everything at once. He who makes things move also creates rest. That which aesthetically is brought to rest is art.

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