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 believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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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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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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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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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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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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We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
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In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
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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.
