Piet Mondrian Quotes
The first thing to change in my painting was the color c. 1908-09. I forsook natural color for pure color. I had come to feel that the colors of nature cannot be reproduced on canvas. Instinctively I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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The first thing to change in my painting was the color c. 1908-09. I forsook natural color for pure color. I had come to feel that the colors of nature cannot be reproduced on canvas. Instinctively I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature.
