Piet Mondrian Quotes
The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that our vital attention fastens more and more on internal things.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.
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In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
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The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and his life is becoming more and more abstract. Natural (external) things become more and more automatic, and we observe that our vital attention fastens more and more on internal things.
