The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. Piet Mondrian More Quotes by Piet Mondrian More Quotes From Piet Mondrian 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. Piet Mondrian 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! Piet Mondrian 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. Piet Mondrian 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. Piet Mondrian 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. Piet Mondrian 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. Piet Mondrian 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. Piet Mondrian things see like culture
