94 Quotes by Piet Mondrian

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

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.

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.