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 proportion relation
The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
emotional curves emotion
Curves are so emotional.
Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.
spiritual art philosophy
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...
beautiful lying flower
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
art real attachment
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.
quality wish fundamentals
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
strong art curves
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.
want
I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.
artist color lines
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
expression opposites two
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.
art reality vision
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.
emotion appearance objects
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
art humble painter
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.