"In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects."

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Source : "Theo van Doesburg". Book by Joost Baljeu, p. 123, 1974.

Theo van Doesburg

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“My cousin Joey played the drums. We used to go to his house, I liked beating on his drums. I beat the hell out of 'em, you know? Finally in 1961, I don't know, I guess I was about 15, I got serious about it. My parents bought me a little drum set and I was playing for about 6 months when I started doing gigs.”
“If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.”
“To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.”
“Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.”
“My colleagues and I fought to increase the resources to address several things, like maternity, prenatal, and newborn care, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. These are things everybody should care about, and resources should be available for families.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.”
“We come to feel as we behave.”

Source : Paul Pearsall (1997). “Write Your Own Pleasure Prescription: 60 Ways to Create Balance & Joy in Your Life”, p.107, Hunter House
“If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.”

Source : Interview with David Cronenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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