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

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

"Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing vertical…"

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

"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…"

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

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

"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…"