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I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arri...

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I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting...

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Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension...

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The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and sp...

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Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these...

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Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which i...

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Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works...

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Art is the path to being spiritual.

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of ...

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist's Way A Sp...

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Piet Mondrian

Painter

Born: 1872-03-07

Died: 1944-02-01

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan (after 1912: Piet Mondrian). (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter starting in Dutch impressionism but soon started to develop abstraction from his landscape paintings. He became an inspiring leader of the De Stijl art movement and group, together with Theo van Doesburg. Mondrian proclaimed 'Neo Plasticism' as a completely new, Abstract art style.More