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Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.


Piet Mondrian

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JACKSON POLLOCK I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Str...
GRAHAM ELLIOT It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time tha...
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GARY F EVANS... I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure
JOHN DEWEY It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
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PHILIP K. DICK Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which i...
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PIET MONDRIAN The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
PIET MONDRIAN Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works...
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PIET MONDRIAN The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals...
PIET MONDRIAN It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through ...
PIET MONDRIAN The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and sp...
PIET MONDRIAN We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympa...
PIET MONDRIAN All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal ...
PIET MONDRIAN Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of traged...
PIET MONDRIAN We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express...
PIET MONDRIAN The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
PIET MONDRIAN Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from t...
PIET MONDRIAN Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art ha...
PIET MONDRIAN Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which...
PIET MONDRIAN I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arri...
PIET MONDRIAN One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this ...
PIET MONDRIAN If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pic...
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PIET MONDRIAN I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT My pure love is playing music.
JAMIE CULLUM Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
WILL ARNETT I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in w...
WALTER GROPIUS See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can co...
BERNARD SUMNER I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorat...
CINDY SHERMAN There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn’t happen often, so take the opportunity when it st...
A.M. WILLARD Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and i...
GILLES DELEUZE We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
G. K. CHESTERTON I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
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ERIK GRIFFIN Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
AL CAPP [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
AL CAPP It is pure joy to be able to be creative and functional. Functional art is definitely my passion.
LISA BIONDI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.
ABHIJIT NASKAR There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
ANDRE MAUROIS Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
VICTOR HUGO The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic becaus...
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SETH GODIN The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he...
CHARLES D. BROAD God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
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DAVE GROHL The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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Piet Mondrian
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 ...
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and ...
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.
PIET HEIN The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other...
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it’s plain / And simple to express: / Err / and err / and err again, / b...
PIET HEIN Living isa thing you donow or never -which do you?
PIET HEIN If no thought your mind does visit, Make your speech not too explicit
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.
PIET HEIN WOKKE