"It is clear to me that this [ De Stijl art] is art for the future. Futurism, although it has advanced beyond naturali…"

"Neo-Plasticism has its roots in Cubism. It could just as easy be called the Painting of Real Abstraction. Since the a…"

"By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created."

"I often sketched by moonlight {in the 1890's] - cows resting or standing immovable in flat Dutch meadows, or houses w…"

"I believe that in our period it is definitely necessary that, as far as possible, the paint is applied in pure colour…"

"For the present at least [1909] I shall restrict my work to the ordinary world of the senses, since that is the world…"

"With that work [Mondrian is referring to his figurative painting 'Devotion' he painted in 1908, of a devotedly lookin…"

"The first thing to change in my painting was the color [c. 1908-09]. I forsook natural color for pure color. I had co…"

"It was during this early period of experiment that I first went to Paris. The time was around 1910 when Cubism was in…"

"He [ Jan Toorop, an older and famous Dutch religious painter] sees the Catholic faith as A. Besant, [a British Theoso…"