The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.
Piet MondrianTo approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
Piet MondrianThe colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.
Piet MondrianI wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
Piet MondrianRecognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. The more determinately (consciously) this recognition is experienced, the more intense our happiness. The more determinately (consciously) this union with the universal is felt, the more individual subjectivity declines.
Piet Mondrian