Piet Mondrian Quotes

Instinct reveals itself as self-concentrating, self-edifying it is limitation. Intuition produces self-denial, self-destruction； it is expansion. Culture can develop both. If it develops instinct, animal nature appears. Then culture destroys the intuitive capacity which men have even found in a primitive state.

Piet Mondrian

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Hope
  • You

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Appetite

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • School
  • Art
  • Bad

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Education
  • Christian
  • Beginning

• I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Dog

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

  

  James Lipton
  • Up

• Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Men
  • Women
  • Literature

• We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Fly

• He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.

  

  William Weaks Morris
  • Place
  • Loves
  • Stranger

• Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

  

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd
  • Smart
  • Bugs
  • Frogs

• Instinct reveals itself as self-concentrating, self-edifying it is limitation. Intuition produces self-denial, self-destruction； it is expansion. Culture can develop both. If it develops instinct, animal nature appears. Then culture destroys the intuitive capacity which men have even found in a primitive state.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Culture