Bram van Velde Quotes

When I am painting, driven by lively tensions, I want to express what’s going on in me. When that tension has ceased, when the life in me became visible, then something happened which had to happen. Over and over again you experience a work which is created in this way. What happened? It is hard to say, because it was not my mind that led but the inner desire that revealed its inner life.

Bram van Velde

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• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • War
  • Man
  • Desire

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Real
  • Love
  • Experience

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Experience
  • House
  • Breakfast

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Help

• You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Know

• I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Experience
  • Power

• I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it's true for film as well, going from country to country and culture to culture. The difference between California and New York responses, for example. It's really fascinating.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Different
  • Country
  • Experience

• The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Stop
  • Painting

• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

  

  Douglas Preston
  • Up
  • Book
  • Power

• There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • History

• I'm usually attracted to more interesting types of men. I have no desire to be with a cookie-cutter Ken doll.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

  

  Kenny Ortega
  • Life
  • Important
  • Experience

• You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Action

• I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Experience
  • Training
  • Effectiveness

• Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • Men

• I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Poetry

• When I am painting, driven by lively tensions, I want to express what’s going on in me. When that tension has ceased, when the life in me became visible, then something happened which had to happen. Over and over again you experience a work which is created in this way. What happened? It is hard to say, because it was not my mind that led but the inner desire that revealed its inner life.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Experience
  • Desire
  • Painting