Piet Mondrian Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Reality, Vision

• 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.

• By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Sculpture, Architecture

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

• Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Discovery, Expression

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

• 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

• Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Confused, Independent, Reflection

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

• 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

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