Piet Mondrian Quotes

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

As an artist, I think it's important to always keep growing, and I definitely want to keep challenging myself.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.