Piet Mondrian quotes

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.

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

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

Art is the path to being spiritual.

Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing.

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.

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

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