"I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects."

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Source : Piet Mondrian (1971). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: Centennial Exhibition: Held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York”

Piet Mondrian

#Quality Quotes #Wish Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes

“"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."”
“I've always said if I came up with a story that wasn't fear based that I was passionate about, that I would explore it. It's just that for as long as I can remember when I sit down in front of a piece of paper it's usually something scary in my head that I end up spilling out. So until that changes, yeah I love the genre and really believe in it.”
“The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.”

Source : William Segal (1998). “Opening: Collected Writings of William Segal, 1985-1997”, Continuum International Publishing Group
“you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.”
“I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.”
“I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.”
“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
“The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.”

Source : "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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