Piet Mondrian Quotes


By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.


Citations

Mondrian, Piet. Two Mondrian Sketchbooks 1912-1914. Edited by Robert P. Welsh and J.M. Joosten, Meulenhoff, 1969.

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Husayn Ali Nuri. This quotation illustrates one of the reasons that the Muslim Iranian fundamentalists are so fearful of Bahai, a reform offshoot of Islam. For the orthodox Muslim there must be no separation of church and state—they are one and the same. The Bahai minority of Iran have been hunted down and in many cases killed on the grounds that they were heretics and blasphemers.


Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
  • Born: March 7, 1872
  • Died: February 1, 1944
  • Nationality: Dutch
  • Profession: Artist

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]), after 1906 Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.