All 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 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 MondrianTo approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
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