Piet Mondrian

“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron”

“Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.”

“As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.”

“Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.”

“Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.”

“I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.”

“Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.”

“The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.”

“The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.”

“By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.”

“Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.”

“Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!”

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

“All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.”

“Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.”

“If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.”

“I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.”

“The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).”

“Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.”

“Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.”