Piet Mondrian Quotes

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

Piet Mondrian

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Today
  • Way
  • Understand

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Stage
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • Black
  • Proud

• With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Changes

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Energy
  • Decisions

• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • God
  • Day

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Growing
  • Mom

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• I think we all have had better days in competition.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Better
  • Competition

• I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Voice

• I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Want
  • Person
  • Alien

• Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'

  

  Lysander Spooner

• If you dance alone on the streets, people might call you crazy, but when so many people dance together, it's a party.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • People
  • Together
  • Alone

• I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

  

  Chris Kirkpatrick NSYNC
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Art

• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Art
  • Decline
  • Completion

• I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Life
  • Past

• Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Art
  • Experience
  • True