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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
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
Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.
— Piet Mondrian
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
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
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
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
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 more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
— 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 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 relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
— 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
Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
— Piet Mondrian
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
Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
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
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
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
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 SPHERESHow 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 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 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
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
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
