Bram van Velde Quotes
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
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I thought that the painter had no right to paint so unclearly.. ..(but) the first faint doubt as to the importance of an 'object' as the necessary element in painting.
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If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man's activities.
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My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
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The substance of painting is light.
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The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
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Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
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A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.
