Piet Mondrian Quotes

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

Piet Mondrian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The media in the States can be quite self-reflective. When I lived in England, I was much more aware of the day-to-day politics that were happening. Living somewhere where the media involvement is greater and so omnipresent, you become pulled into it and, at the same time, because of that, politics changes and the way it's handled changes.

Max Minghella

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I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

John McEnroe

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I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

Maureen O'Hara

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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

Rush Limbaugh

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No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

Jose Padilha

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I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.

Doc Watson

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Colin Wilson

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It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.

Brendan Iribe

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

William Morris

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If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

William Greider

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You must change in order to survive.

Pearl Bailey

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