Piet Mondrian Quotes About Art

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

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Humble, Humility

• el arte abstracto no es la creación de otra realidad, sino la verdadera visión de la realidad.

  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

• 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

• Creo que usted también reconoce la importante relación que existe entre la filosofía y el arte, y es precisamente esta relación la que niegan la mayoría de los pintores. Los grandes maestros sí la captan, inconscientemente; pero yo creo que el conocimiento espiritual consciente de un pintor tendrá una influencia mucho mayor sobre su arte, y que sólo se debería a una debilidad en él, o a falta de genio, el que este conocimiento espiritual fuera perjudicial para su arte.

  Piet Mondrian

  Espiritual, Arte, Filosofía

  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).

• 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

  Vida, Arte, Dar

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

• Es posible que, a través de líneas horizontales y verticales construidas con conciencia, pero no con cálculo, guiadas por una alta intuición, y llevadas a la armonía y el ritmo, estas formas básicas de la belleza, complementadas si es necesario por otras líneas directas o curvas, puedan convertirse en una obra de arte, tan fuerte como verdadera.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Strong, Curves

• 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

  Arte, Realidad, Espejos

  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".

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