Piet Mondrian Quotes

Our entire being is nourished by color.

Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

I am a believer that color affects people's moods.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

The color white is the absence of memory.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

Color cannot stand alone.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.