Piet Mondrian Quotes

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

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

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

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.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.