Piet Mondrian on Nature
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Piet Mondrian, catalogued under nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Piet Mondrian, entry #34468: "Kandinsky points out that Theosophy is yet another expression of the same spiritual movement which we are now seeing in painting."
Attributed to Piet Mondrian, entry #54747: "The new plastic idea cannot, therefore, take the form of a natural or concrete representation, although the latter does always indicate the universal to a degree, or at least conc…"
8 Quotes by Piet Mondrian on Nature
"Kandinsky points out that Theosophy is yet another expression of the same spiritual movement which we are now seeing in painting."
"The new plastic idea cannot, therefore, take the form of a natural or concrete representation, although the latter does always indicate the universal to a degree, or at least conceals it within."
"Nature moves me deeply; I paint nature only in a different way.."
"The first thing to change in my painting was the color . I forsook natural color for pure color. I had come to feel that the colors of nature cannot be reproduced on canvas. Instinctively I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature."
"This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color."
"If the masc. is the vertic. line, then a man will recognize this element in the rising line of a forest; in the horizont. lines of the sea he will see his complement. Woman, with the horizont. line as element, sees herself in the recumbent lines of the sea, and her complement in the vert. lines of the forest."
"Instinct reveals itself as self-concentrating, self-edifying it is limitation. Intuition produces self-denial, self-destruction； it is expansion. Culture can develop both. If it develops instinct, animal nature appears. Then culture destroys the intuitive capacity which men have even found in a primitive state."
"And then about whether or not to work from a given in nature. In my view, you define this in a rather narrow sense. In the main, I do agree with you that the destruction of the natural, and it reconstruction, must be accomplished according to a spiritual image, but I believe that we should take a broad view here. What 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."