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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

~Piet Mondrian

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If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.

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We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

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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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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

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All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.

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I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, generally known terrain, different only because of a deep substratum, which leads those who are receptive to sense the finer regions.

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Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

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Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

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The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper.

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Artist

Born: March 7th, 1872

Died: February 1st, 1944

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