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I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.


Piet Mondrian

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PIET MONDRIAN Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
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PIET MONDRIAN The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
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PIET MONDRIAN Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It's my job, but I think it is too much.
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MICHAEL LEUNIG And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
BARNEY FRANK I think any stereotyping is too much.
TOMMY LEE JONES The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural patt...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
TRYON EDWARDS My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
COLUMBA BUSH Hell is truth seen too late - duty neglected in its season
TRYON EDWARDS My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is...
THOM YORKE I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much plan...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a ten...
ALEXANDER SKARSGARD So much is being neglected in Palestine today when it comes to the state of security and the rule of...
EYAD SARRAJ The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
NEWT GINGRICH What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is ...
WILLA CATHER What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is ...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.
ALAN RUCK Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't think there's too much out there that is leaking.
DEAN BOSSERT So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion-picture art was (and is) that it is too much an i...
GARSON KANIN I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.
THELMA GOLDEN I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
WALTON GOGGINS Much of what we're doing is to make sure that the animal element, the bird element, doesn't get into...
LEAH YOON I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move ...
SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much ...
EVAN MCMULLIN I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in th...
JOHN CASSAVETES If they're in a destructive mood, we'll remove the mat, too.
KAT CLARK I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications...
MISHA GLOUBERMAN Much of oil history remains neglected,
BRUCE WELLS There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel t...
KURT COBAIN I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourse...
NICOLE KIDMAN There's nothing you can really put a finger on, except preparation. For whatever reason, maybe we fe...
DALLAS DRAKE I am tired of kissing on screen. I have to do it because it is synonymous with me. Also, the produce...
EMRAAN HASHMI I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much...
CECELIA AHERN I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of ...
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OTTO DIX I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
TED NAIFEH Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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STEVEN SPIELBERG I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
BOB SAGET I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ...
PAMELA ANDERSON I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ...
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JASON BATEMAN I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so impor...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV I think there's a misconception that kids cut too much weight, and hopefully this will put that in c...
DENNIS LYBERGER I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
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TED WILLIAMS We think too much and feel too little.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
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AUGUST WILSON The war on drugs has been too long and too disgustingly failed and far too destructive.
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PIET MONDRIAN The most advanced minds as well as the least advanced are obliged to use the same words. If we adopt...
PIET MONDRIAN The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a re...
PIET MONDRIAN I do not know how I shall develop, but for the present, I am continuing to work within ordinary, gen...
PIET MONDRIAN Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivi...
PIET MONDRIAN Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and l...
PIET HEIN The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust ...
PIET HEIN Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T

W...
PIET HEIN A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
PIET HEIN We're not working as efficiently and effectively as we could be. Without adequate staff, appliances ...
PIET SMITH Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back.
PIET HEIN After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the...
PIET HEIN Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and n...
PIET HEIN The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.
PIET HEIN People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining ...
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PIET HEIN THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY

There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eat...
PIET HEIN We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas,...
PIET HEIN Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
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PIET HEIN To make a name for learning/ when other roads are barred,/ take something very easy/ and make it ver...
PIET HEIN Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particl...
PIET HEIN It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be ...
PIET HEIN SMALL THINGS
& GREAT

He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the...
PIET HEIN WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK

Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN It's not under control yet.
PIET SMITH Living is
a thing you do
now or never -
which do you?
PIET HEIN Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.
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