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Piet Mondrian Quotes

I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.

Piet Mondrian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: dutch
Birth: March 7, 1872 - February 1, 1944

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More Never Need Economy Expression

Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.

Joe Lonsdale

Work Hard Work Freedom Suffering Us

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Melissa Leo

Listening Key Talking Acting More

There is danger involved in combat sports, but this is the purest form of competition. It's all about finding the truth. When you put someone in a cage or a ring, you're going to find out the truth - not only about your opponent but about yourself as well.

Mauro Ranallo

Truth Sports Yourself Competition

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

Andy Samberg

People Strange Pretending Other

I've always been charmed by houses, and descriptions of them are prominent in my novels. So prominent, in fact, that my editor once pointed out to me that all of my early novels had houses on the covers.

Anita Shreve

Me Early Always Out Been Fact

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly.

Sonam Kapoor

Morning Day Night Reading Help Only

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

Robert Burns

Love Rest Young More Company Him

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.

Michael McKean

Love City Amazing Moving Friends

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Jared Diamond

Start Security Cost National Security

I have two young sons that are very interested and work in real estate. I made it a policy they need to work five years in progressively responsible jobs outside of the company, preferably in New York, and then get a masters degree, so I am making it hard for them to join.

Jorge M. Perez

Work I Am New York Real Estate Young

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

Drew Barrymore

Love Children Wait Want Something

I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.

Anthony Head

Mind World Believe Know Sometimes