94 Quotes by Piet Mondrian

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'

Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.