Piet Hein citations

Piet Hein est un poète et scientifique danois célèbre pour avoir créé un genre de poème nommé grook et en avoir écrit plus de 7 000. Il est un descendant direct du pirate Piet Hein.

Il a notamment inventé les jeux de Hex et du Cube Soma. Il a aussi instauré l'usage de la superellipse dans l'architecture scandinave. Le superœuf est un gadget créé par Hein, par révolution d'une superellipse autour de son axe. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. décembre 1905 – 17. avril 1996
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Piet Hein: Citations en anglais

“Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”

As quoted in Man Creates Art Creates Man (1973) by Duane Preble, p. 14
Variant translation: Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
As quoted in Architecture: form, space, and order (2007) by Francis D.K. Ching, p. ix
Contexte: After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

“But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.”

As quoted in Scandinavian Review (2003), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p. 18
Contexte: Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.

“Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment”

T.T.T. (Acronym in Danish: Ting Tager Tid)
Grooks
Contexte: p>Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishmentT. T. T.When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.</p

“Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields.”

As quoted in Man Creates Art Creates Man (1973) by Duane Preble, p. 14
Variant translation: Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
As quoted in Architecture: form, space, and order (2007) by Francis D.K. Ching, p. ix
Contexte: After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity — now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.

“Those
that are looking
for nothing — will find it.”

Look And Thou Shalt Find
Grooks
Contexte: Foes
of what's cooking
see no worth behind it.
Those
that are looking
for nothing — will find it.

“Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over.”

As quoted in Scandinavian Review (2003), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p. 18
Contexte: Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.

“Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.”

What Love Is Like
Grooks

“Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.”

The Road to Wisdom?
Grooks
Contexte: The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.

“The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts;
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust for other sports.”

Hint And Suggestion : Admonitory grook addressed to youth
Grooks

“The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.”

Nothing Is Indespensable : Grook to warn the universe against megalomania
Grooks

“Co-existence
or no existence.”

That Is The Question : Hamlet Anno Domini
Grooks

“Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.”

The Final Touch : Portrait of nobody in particular
Grooks

“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.”

Consolation Grook, his first grook, published in Politiken (April 1940) as translated in Grooks (1966)
Grooks

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