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All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

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Piet Mondrian
Age: 71 †
Born: 1872
Born: March 7
Died: 1944
Died: February 1
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If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.
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