94 Quotes by Piet Mondrian

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

Curves are so emotional.

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

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...

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

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.

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