Piet Mondrian Quotes


We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.


Citations

Mondrian, Piet. "The New Plastic in Painting." The New Art - The New Life: The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian, edited by Harry Holtzman and Martin S. James, G.K. Hall, 1986, p. 32.

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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.