Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
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, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
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