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“ 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. ”

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

~ Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian Abstraction Art Essence Truth

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.

~ Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian Time Beauty Beautiful

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

~ Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian Time Color Rhythm

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

~ Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian Positive Time Changes