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Human culture reveals an opposition: diminution of the instinctive faculties and development of the intuitive capacity. A cultivation of instinctive faculties produces human degeneration; a cultivation of intuitive capacities creates human progress.

— Piet Mondrian

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..the elements of form have a particular aspect; every fragment, every plane, every line has its proper character.

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

You can so wonderfully be yourself here [in Paris].

'Masculine and feminime, vertical and horizontal.

Nature moves me deeply; I paint nature (now) only in a different way..

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