94 Quotes by Piet Mondrian

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

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...

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

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.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?