Piet Mondrian Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
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“The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.”
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“The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.”
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“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.”
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“Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.”
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“The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.”
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“I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.”
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“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.”
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“The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.”
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“To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.”
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“abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.”
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“By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.”
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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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“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.”
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“The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.”
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“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...”
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“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.”
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“I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.”
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“Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?”
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“The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.”
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“Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.”
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“All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.”
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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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“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...”
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“The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.”
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“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.”
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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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“The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.”
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