Recognizing 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 MondrianThe unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.
Piet MondrianColored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
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 MondrianBy the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
Piet Mondrian