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.

Piet Mondrian

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• I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • School
  • High
  • College

• 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.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• 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.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Never
  • Said

• I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Scared

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Impossible
  • Common
  • Laborers

• Anything I do, I want to do it well.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Anything
  • Well

• Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Capable

• We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

  

  Major Owens
  • World
  • Need
  • Terrorism

• 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.

  

  Flume
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Fail
  • Starting
  • Routine

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Know
  • 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.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Live
  • Perspective

• 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!'

  

  Eminem
  • Game
  • Cold
  • Devil

• Lo pagado con nuestra vida nunca es caro.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Poetry

• A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Great
  • Solitude

• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Business
  • Opportunity

• I've taken pictures in at least 14 countries, and nowhere have people told me 'no' more than New York City.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • City
  • Taken

• A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Together
  • Spiritual

• Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • World
  • Action

• I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Man
  • Day
  • End

• I love working with kids and helping others, so I feel like a career in teaching would be perfect.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Piet Mondrian