Piet Mondrian Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Humble, Humility

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Reality, Vision

• 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.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Real, Attachment

• The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Emotion, Modern

  "Natural Reality and Abstract Reality" by Piet Mondrian, published in De Stijl magazine, 1919.

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Spiritual, Art, Reality

  "Piet Mondrian: Life and Work" by Michel Seuphor, Abrams, New York, p. 117, 1956.

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Made, Art Is

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

• 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.

  Piet Mondrian

  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

• The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Ordinary, Path

  Quoted in F Elgar Mondrian (1968).

• In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Individual

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

• 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.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Mean, Past

• Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.

  Piet Mondrian

  Life, Art, Giving

  "The new art - the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian".

• The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Reality, Mirrors

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Fields, Should

  Quoted in F Elgar Mondrian (1968).

• The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Balance, Problem

  "50 years of Mondrian".

• Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Men, Practice

  "Abstract Painting" by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., (p. 85), 1964.

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Reality, Vision

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

• 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.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Strong, Curves

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