"I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art..."

-- Piet Mondrian

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“Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.”
“Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.”
“I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.”
“I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com
“The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.”

Source : "What is Political Philosophy?". Book by Leo Strauss, 1959.
“I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.”
“Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and canâ€™t act in any of them.”
“Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.”

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