The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.

Piet Mondrian Quotes