Piet Mondrian Quotes

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

Piet Mondrian

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• I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Music
  • Projects

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• I like to be against the odds.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Like
  • Against
  • Odds

• If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Show
  • Would
  • Room

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Up
  • Help
  • Age

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor
  • Quick

• In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Faith
  • Opinion
  • Many

• I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Support
  • Stop
  • Myself

• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Stand

• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Past
  • Change

• I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Simple

• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Beginning
  • Just
  • Fingers

• The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Platform

• I never should have made it. It was stupid.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Stupid

• When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Society

• Phish in San Diego...I saw them play an unbelievable fucking show, which, I can honestly say, changed my life. I was physically torn apart and spiritually moved by the experience.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Experience

• As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.

  

  Mark Udall
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• For a momentThe surrounding utters no sound.Time ceases.The Paradise of Dreams come true.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Time
  • True
  • Paradise

• I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Repel
  • Flat shoes

• I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Dream
  • Surprise

• I missed the idea of him more than he himself.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Idea
  • Missed

• The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.

  

  Piet Mondrian