Piet Mondrian Quotes
Dear Does = Theo van Doesburg , thank you for your letter.. .I was glad to know that in principle you are in favour of the diamond hanging Mondrian's painting, he made in 1919, hanging in a rhombus and I think that in practice you will approve of this method for some of my things. You look at the thing painting itself, and not only the outward appearance..
Quotes to Explore
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
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I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.
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Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
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I love breakfast, so I'd probably spend a long time on that. And breakfast food matters so I'd make sure it is the best food - great fruit and such.
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Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
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Guys were open, so they knocked them down. They're going to knock them down when they're open.
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Dear Does = Theo van Doesburg , thank you for your letter.. .I was glad to know that in principle you are in favour of the diamond hanging Mondrian's painting, he made in 1919, hanging in a rhombus and I think that in practice you will approve of this method for some of my things. You look at the thing painting itself, and not only the outward appearance..
