Piet Mondrian Quotes
If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.
Quotes to Explore
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
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Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
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When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.
