51 Quotes by Piet Hein

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.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES How instructiveis a star!It can teach usfrom afarjust how smalleach other are.

DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.Everything's eitherconcave or -vex,so whatever you dreamwill be something with sex.

Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.

PRAYER to the sun above the clouds. Sun that givest all things birth,shine on everything on earth! If that's too much to demand,shine at least on this our land. If even that's too much for thee,shine at any rate on me.

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme,trying to say-for the thousandth time-what's easier done than said.

VITA BREVIS A lifetimeis morethansufficiently longfor people to get what there is of itwrong.

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cowerand wince and shrink,owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please.