Piet Mondrian Quotes

I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.

Piet Mondrian

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• I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
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• I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • House
  • Me
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• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Always
  • Lady
  • Spider

• I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Just
  • Cook

• Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Like
  • Make
  • Walls

• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Taken

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Government
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• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
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• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
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• There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Black
  • Financial
  • Potential

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Fan
  • Type
  • Biggest

• I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • People
  • America

• I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

  

  Mike Trout
  • Country
  • Artist
  • Springsteen

• I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Movies
  • Instinctive thrust

• That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship between him and Quill, and how they ended up living together, for the last 18 or 19 years, without killing one another. He's a strong young man, and it's because of Yondu.

  

  Michael Rooker
  • Together
  • Strong
  • Living

• I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Art