QuoteQuest“The first thing to change in my painting was the color [c. 1908-09]. 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.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Piet Mondrian
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- reference · Secondary source
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Mondrian, Piet. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Piet Mondrian. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
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