I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
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 MondrianBy the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
Piet MondrianRecognizing 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 Mondrian