Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian, was a Dutch painter...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 March 1872
CityAmersfoort, Netherlands
essence lines painting
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
color dimensions given
The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.
numbers pioneers followers
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.
want
I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.
color inward pure
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
spiritual art reality
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
color size planes
Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
absolute appear relations relativity rhythm size time
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
art neither
Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
dimension exist expressed oppose positions regard relationship
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.
conscious man transcend universal
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
came existence ideal move since
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
art
I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.
freedom inherent man universal
The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).