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The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Mankind
Men, said the Devil,
are good to their brothers:
they don't want to mend
their own ways, but each other's. — Piet Hein

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing! — Piet Mondrian

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture. — Piet Mondrian

If no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself! — Piet Hein

Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances. — Piet Mondrian

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again. — Piet Hein

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago. — Piet Hein

SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him. — Piet Hein

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair.
-Piet Soron, 1847 — Jesse Ball

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form. — Piet Mondrian

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian

PRESCRIPTION

A bit
of virtue
will never
hurt you. — Piet Hein

Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996) — Piet Hein

Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

BRAVE
To be brave is to behave
bravely when your heart is faint.
So you can be really brave
only when you really ain't. — Piet Hein

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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. — Piet Mondrian

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. — Piet Mondrian

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian

If you posses more than just eight things then y o u are possessed by t h e m — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms. — Piet Mondrian

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. — Piet Zwart

A bit beyond perceptions reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key — Piet Hein

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art. — Piet Mondrian

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic. — Piet Mondrian

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. — Piet Mondrian

THE FINAL TOUCH
Portrait of nobody in particular
Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent. — Piet Hein

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. — Piet Mondrian

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure. — Piet Mondrian

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody. — Piet Mondrian

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind? — Piet Mondrian

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within. — Piet Mondrian

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms. — Piet Mondrian

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. — Piet Mondrian

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual. — Piet Mondrian

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective. — Piet Mondrian

The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position. — Piet Mondrian

The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life. — Piet Mondrian

When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. — Piet Mondrian

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. — Piet Hein

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you? — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right. — Piet Mondrian

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual. — Piet Mondrian

Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration. — Piet Oudolf

I'd like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it's out. — Piet Hein

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

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty. — Piet Mondrian

The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers. — Piet Oudolf

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. — Piet Mondrian

Wisdom is the booby prize given when you've been unwise. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

VITA BREVIS
A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong. — Piet Hein

It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next. — Piet Hein

People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,
trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said. — Piet Hein

Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian

The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him). — Piet Mondrian

Art is the path to being spiritual. — Piet Mondrian

Love while you've love to give.
Live while you've got life to live. — Piet Hein

REFLECTION ON SIZE
Small people often overrate
the charm of being tall;
which is, that you appreciate
the charm of being small. — Piet Hein

ABREAST
He who aims
to keep abreast
is for ever
second best. — Piet Hein

Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES
How instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are. — Piet Hein

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Co-existence or no existence. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature. — Piet Oudolf

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Colour is a creative element, not a trimming. — Piet Zwart

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. — Piet Mondrian

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian

By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit. — Piet Mondrian

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second — Piet Hein

A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead. — Piet Oudolf

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out. — Piet Mondrian

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting. — Piet Mondrian

Curves are so emotional. — Piet Mondrian

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. — Piet Hein

To be and not to be, that is the answer. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves. — Piet Mondrian

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.
Everything's either
concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream
will be something with sex. — Piet Hein