Piet Mondrian Quotes

Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

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

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

I take the good; I take the bad. I don't outweigh them. I just try to balance it all.

Life really is a series of contrasts.