Piet Mondrian Quotes

Netherlands, Artist
March 7, 1872 – February, 1, 1944.

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 Piet Mondrian (7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

Piet Mondrian
- Words
..the Place de l'Opera in Paris gives a better image of the new life than many theories. Its rhythms of opposition, twice repeated in its two directions, realizes a living equilibrium through the exactness of its execution.

Piet Mondrian
- Life
- Paris

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.

Piet Mondrian
- Real
- Painting