Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
Piet MondrianObserving sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.
Piet MondrianColored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
Piet MondrianThe emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
Piet MondrianWhat is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.
Piet Mondrian