In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
Piet MondrianEvolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.
Piet MondrianAll painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.
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 Mondrian