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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. ”

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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

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

~ Piet Mondrian

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.

~ Piet Mondrian

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