94 Quotes by Piet Mondrian

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.

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.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

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

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.

I don’t want pictures, I want to find things out.

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.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,’sacred fire’and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.