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


Piet Mondrian

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PIET MONDRIAN Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and l...
PIET HEIN The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust ...
PIET HEIN Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T

W...
PIET HEIN A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
PIET HEIN We're not working as efficiently and effectively as we could be. Without adequate staff, appliances ...
PIET SMITH Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back.
PIET HEIN After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the...
PIET HEIN Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and n...
PIET HEIN The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.
PIET HEIN People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining ...
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and ...
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There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eat...
PIET HEIN We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas,...
PIET HEIN Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
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PIET HEIN Living isa thing you donow or never -which do you?
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PIET HEIN To make a name for learning/ when other roads are barred,/ take something very easy/ and make it ver...
PIET HEIN Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particl...
PIET HEIN It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be ...
PIET HEIN SMALL THINGS
& GREAT

He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the...
PIET HEIN WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK

Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN It's not under control yet.
PIET SMITH Living is
a thing you do
now or never -
which do you?
PIET HEIN Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.
PIET HEIN WOKKE