Piet Mondrian Universal Quotations

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

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

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

The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.

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