Piet Mondrian Quotes
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
Quotes to Explore
-
I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
-
There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
-
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
-
I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
-
I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
-
I'm sick of running away from things.
-
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
-
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
-
Anything I do, I want to do it well.
-
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
-
We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.
-
My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.
-
A while ago, I was starting to get bored with my routine, so I tried Spinning and fell in love with it instantly. I go to class three times a week, without fail. I always get there early so I can sit in the front of the studio, and I'm ready to go as soon as the instructor comes in.
-
Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
-
I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
-
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
-
As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.
-
Maybe just an ice cold brew what's a beer, that's the devil in my ear, I've been sober a fucking year and that fucker still talks to me, he’s all I can fuckin' hear 'Marshall, come on, we'll watch the game, it's the Cowboys and Buccaneers!'
-
I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.
-
Embrace the wrongness because it'll make the eventual rightness even sweeter
-
The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
-
Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
-
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
