Piet Mondrian

The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

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

Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.