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Piet Mondrian Biography

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (/ˈmɔːndriˌɑːn, ˈmɒn-/; Dutch: [ˈpit ˈmɔndrijaːn], later [ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

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The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

Color, Inward, Pure, Basic

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

Art, Art Is, Everybody, Made, Time

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.

Emotional, Inspire, Nature, Possible, Reach, See

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

Colour, Essence, Line, Lines, Painting, Plastically

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

Abstraction, Art, Aware, Beauty, Emotion, Modern

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

Achieve, Art, Balance, Objective, Problem, Subjective

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

Age, Becomes, Effort, Past

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

Everything, Relationships, Expressed

Intellect confuses intuition.

Confuses, Intellect, Intuition

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Everything, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Possible, Quality, Wish

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

Want, Pictures, Things

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

Doe, Making, Nature, Sky, Starry, Use

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

Color, Dimension, Dimensions, Form, Forms, Greater

Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

Rest, Sea, Sky, Stars, Vastness

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

Architecture, Created, Reality, Sculpture

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

Degrees, Followers, Following, Numbers, Pioneers, Revolution

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Appearance, Beauty, Emotion, Object, Objects, Picture

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

Art, Humble, Humility, Artist, Channel, Essentially

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.

Art, Real, Attachment, Repose, Transcend

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

Expression, Nature, Opposing, Opposites, Two

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