Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian, was a Dutch painter...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 March 1872
CityAmersfoort, Netherlands
color size planes
Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
nature emotional inspire
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...
art made art-is
Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.
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 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.
essence lines painting
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
art reality vision
It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.
expression ideas lines
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.
art fields should
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
sky use doe
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.
reality expression discovery
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.
color inward pure
The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
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.
confused independent reflection
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.