Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms.
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 MondrianCubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.
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 Mondrian