Piet Mondrian on Time
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Piet Mondrian, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Piet Mondrian, entry #65712: "The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space."
Attributed to Piet Mondrian, entry #71338: "In Paris, I quickly mastered the Foxtrot, the Shimmy and the One Step, At first, the heel-toe was sort of tricky. Nowadays, they find ways around it."
8 Quotes by Piet Mondrian on Time
"The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space."
"In Paris, I quickly mastered the Foxtrot, the Shimmy and the One Step, At first, the heel-toe was sort of tricky. Nowadays, they find ways around it."
"A form must be of its own time if it is to be recognized: one cannot relate to what one is not or does not have – Thus all that is of the past is to be rejected."
"I believe that at times such as these my modest efforts may be useful to mankind. I have shown how the new art has succeeded in bringing about pure relationships, and furthermore how these can be created in day-to-day life."
"The abstract human mind will have to receive the intended impression by its own means. I always confine myself to expressing the universal, that is, the eternal and I do so in the simplest of external forms, in order to be able to express the inner meaning as lightly veiled as possible."
"The new vision.. ..does not proceed from a fixed point. Its viewpoint is everywhere, and not limited to any one position . Nor is it bound by space or time . In practice, the viewpoint is in front of the plane.. .Thus this new vision sees architecture as a multiplicity of planes; again flat. This multiplicity composes itself into a flat image ."
"This year I have worked hard, and done much searching. A great deal of the old was due for a change. I was searching for a purer representation, which is why I wasn't satisfied with anything.. .The large black and white one has also been totally reworked, which I now regret; it would have been better to leave it as it was, and make a new one. But when one is searching, one does not now in advance just how to go about it."
"Having red several of your books, I wonder if you could find the time to read my brochure 'Le Néo-Plasticisme', which I am closing. I believe that Neo-Plasticism is the art of the foreseeable future for all true anthroposophists and theosophists. Neo-Plasticism creates harmony through the equivalence of the two extremes: the universal and the individual. The former by 'revelation', the latter by 'deduction'.. .It was impossible to bring about an equilibrium of relationships other than by destroying the 'form', and replacing it by a new 'universal' expressive means."