The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in m... by Piet Mondrian

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).

Piet Mondrian

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The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.

without i-am nature sky

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

right nothing who nature

Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.

harmony dance life art

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

thought intelligence together brain

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

alone experience teacher art

As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.

new tradition appearance art

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.

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