Piet Mondrian Came Quotations

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

I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions.