Bram van Velde Quotes
Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.
Bram van Velde
Quotes to Explore
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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.
Edmund Morgan
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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.
Gary Hume
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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.
Walter Gropius
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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.
Laura Mennell
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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.
Luanne Rice
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The substance of painting is light.
Andre Derain
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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.
Donald Judd
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
James Gray
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My secret pleasure is painting these little mini figures that you send into battle - they're called Warhammer figures. It's the nerdiest thing in the world, but it's a lot of fun. It's relaxing; that's the main reason I do it.
Cole Sprouse
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The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
