“There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.”

— Piet Hein

Ars Brevis
Grooks

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art- lessness." by Piet Hein?

Piet Hein 37

Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet 1905–1996

Related quotes

“Less art, more matter”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet

“More matter with less art.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Plus l'homme cultive les arts, moins il bande.
Variant translation: The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)

“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.”

Oscar Wilde book Intentions

What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Intentions (1891)

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward — neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”

Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) American pop artist

Quote of Lichtenstein in: Interview by G.R. Swenson (1963); as quoted in Painters on Painting, Eric Protter (1971) p. 263
1960's

“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”

Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet

Satire I, l. 51.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" in Esquire (April 1960); republished as "The Northern Protestant" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961) and in The Price of the Ticket (1985)

“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly," His Highness replied, "…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”

Murasaki Shikibu book The Tale of Genji

Source: Tale of Genji, Ch. 17: Eawase (trans. Royall Tyler)
Source: The Tale of Genji

“There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.”

Jean Dubuffet book Prospectus et tous écrits suivants

Source: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 206

“There isone art,no more,no less:to doall thingswith art-lessness.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Piet Hein 37

Related quotes

Related topics

“There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.”