“Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things.” WantStillsStatesNatureEmotionalInspireFoundationPainterAbstractUrges Author:Piet Mondrian
“Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.” NeedsSometimesLawLiteratureNaturePerfectVirtueInspireVicesImpulseEquilibriumMaintenance Author:Marquis de Sade