Piet Mondrian Quotes

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

It was a mutual relationship.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Everything happens through relationships.

No one person is an island.