Forgive me of saying so, but good things just have to grow very slowly. I say this in connection with your plans.... for launching a journal. I do not think that the time is favourable for it. More must be achieved in art in that direction. I hardly know anyone who is really creating art in our style, in other words, art which has arrived....(i. e. you will have to include in it [in the planned art-Journal 'De Stijl'] what is not consistent with our ideas.)


Letter to Theo van Doesburg, Amsterdam, Novemer 20, 1915; as quoted in Letters of the great artists, (transl. Daphne Woodward), Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 234

Piet Mondrian Quotes

Forgive me of saying so, but good things just have to grow very slowly. I say this in connection with your plans.... for launching a journal. I do...

Forgive me of saying so, but good things just have to grow very slowly. I say this in connection with your plans.... for launching a journal. I do...

Forgive me of saying so, but good things just have to grow very slowly. I say this in connection with your plans.... for launching a journal. I do...

Forgive me of saying so, but good things just have to grow very slowly. I say this in connection with your plans.... for launching a journal. I do...