Piet Mondrian Quotes

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

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.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

Art is a self-replicating force.

I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.There are not more than five primary colors, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

What I dream of is an art of balance.