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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.

~Piet Mondrian

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

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It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.

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

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It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.

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

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

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We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Artist

Born: March 7th, 1872

Died: February 1st, 1944

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