Piet Mondrian Quotes

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.

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

I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.

Color cannot stand alone.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.

Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

There is no model, there is only color.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.