Top 100 Quotes About Piet
#1. I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget [Wassily] Kandinsky and [Kazimir] Malevich and [Piet] Mondrian, I mean that was the basis.
Frank Stella
#2. In 1628, French pirates and marauding, escaped slaves plundered Santiago and burned Havana to the ground. Even the Dutch, led by Piet Heyn , sacked the Spanish fleet lying at anchor in Havana harbor. page 83, "The Exciting Story of Cuba
Hank Bracker
#3. You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' coincidence that they was in the sky before Koos an" Piet was drowned."
"Yes," said Kielbiet, "it's nonsense. Have a drink. You'll go fish all right.
Theo Engela
#4. The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron
Piet Mondrian
#5. You just don't want me to realize how old you actually are when I see a picture of you in line for Return of the Jedi." --Dr. Julian Piet
(Quoter's note: Damn, it hurts most when they don't mean it. I resemble that remark!! =( )
Bethany Brown
#6. Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
Piet Hein
#7. I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.
Graham Elliot
#8. We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair.
-Piet Soron, 1847
Jesse Ball
#10. The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a reconstruction of a starry sky, yet I make it, nevertheless, without a given in nature.
Piet Mondrian
#11. Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.
Piet Mondrian
#12. 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
#13. If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art ... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.
Piet Mondrian
#14. WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of
what people may think.
There is one answer
to worries like these:
people may think
what the devil they please.
Piet Hein
#15. The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
Piet Mondrian
#16. The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.
Piet Mondrian
#17. I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.
Piet Mondrian
#18. We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.
Piet Mondrian
#19. ON PROBLEMS
Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
Piet Hein
#20. REFLECTION ON SIZE
Small people often overrate
the charm of being tall;
which is, that you appreciate
the charm of being small.
Piet Hein
#21. THE ROAD TO WISDOM
The road to wisdom?
Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
Piet Hein
#22. DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.
Everything's either
concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream
will be something with sex.
Piet Hein
#23. Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#24. 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
#25. I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.
Piet Mondrian
#26. The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
Piet Mondrian
#27. To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
Piet Mondrian
#28. Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#30. The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
Piet Mondrian
#31. 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
#32. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
Piet Hein
#33. The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#34. 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
#35. THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES
How instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are.
Piet Hein
#36. MEETING THE EYE
You'll probably find
that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
than you look.
Observe that the easiest
method by far
is to look a bit stupider
than you are.
Piet Hein
#37. A bit beyond perceptions reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key
Piet Hein
#38. WHO IS LEARNED? A definition
One who, consuming midnight oil
in studies diligent and slow,
teaches himself, with painful toil,
the things that other people know.
Piet Hein
#39. Love while you've love to give.
Live while you've got life to live.
Piet Hein
#40. Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth
The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.
Piet Hein
#41. We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#42. SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.
Piet Hein
#43. The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.
Piet Mondrian
#44. Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.
Piet Mondrian
#45. Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.
Piet Mondrian
#46. Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.
Piet Mondrian
#47. It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.
Piet Mondrian
#48. Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.
Piet Mondrian
#49. I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
Piet Mondrian
#50. The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.
Piet Mondrian
#51. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#52. Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.
Piet Mondrian
#53. We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.
Piet Zwart
#54. Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.
Piet Mondrian
#56. As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.
Piet Mondrian
#57. The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between subjective and objective.
Piet Mondrian
#58. A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Stomach-ache can be a curse;
heart-ache may be even worse;
so thank Heaven on your knees
if you've got but one of these.
Piet Hein
#59. The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
Piet Zwart
#60. 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
#62. THE FINAL TOUCH
Portrait of nobody in particular
Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.
Piet Hein
#63. Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#64. This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.
Piet Mondrian
#65. 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
#66. Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
Piet Mondrian
#67. It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself!
Piet Hein
#68. The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
#70. It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.
Piet Mondrian
#71. Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
Piet Mondrian
#72. I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
Piet Mondrian
#74. The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
Piet Mondrian
#75. All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
Piet Mondrian
#76. CANDLE WISDOM
If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright.
Piet Hein
#77. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.
And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.
Piet Hein
#78. Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.
Piet Mondrian
#79. Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,
trying to say-
for the thousandth time-
what's easier done than said.
Piet Hein
#80. 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.
Piet Mondrian
#81. As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second
Piet Hein
#82. The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#83. The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.
Piet Mondrian
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#88. Nobody can be lucky all the time, / so when your luck deserts you in some fashion / don't think you've been abandoned in your prime, / but rather that you're saving up your ration
Piet Hein
#89. By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
Piet Mondrian
#90. Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
Piet Mondrian
#91. The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
Piet Mondrian
#92. 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
#93. It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.
Piet Mondrian
#94. The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
Piet Mondrian
#95. Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
Piet Mondrian
#96. The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.
Piet Mondrian
#98. I'd like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it's out.
Piet Hein
#99. The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt new words, it will be even more difficult - if not impossible - to make ourselves understood. The new man must therefore express himself in conventional language.
Piet Mondrian
#100. 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
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