"Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody."

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Source : Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

Piet Mondrian

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“The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.”
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
“When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or not. I don't think the job of art is to preach, I think it's to ask questions and make people aware of differences and different ways of looking at things. That's what I want to do, anyway. Whether I'm successful or not, that's up to history.”
“When a new book is published, read an old one.”
“Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.”
“Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.”
“If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.”
“Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.”

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