"This... brings us, in a future perhaps remote, towards the end of art as a thing separate from our surrounding environment, which is the actual plastic reality. But this end is at the same time a new beginning. Art will not only continue, but will realize itself more and more. By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting in their highest development, a new plastic reality will be created. Painting and sculpture will not manifest themselves as separate objects, nor as "mural art" which destroys architecture itself, nor as applied art, but being purely constructive, will aid the creation of a surrounding environment not merely utilitarian or rational, but also pure and complete in its beauty."

Piet Mondrian, "Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art" (The Documents of Modern Art), Wittenborn & Co., NY, 1945