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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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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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Pablo Picasso
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Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Walter Gropius
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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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.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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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.
Wassily Kandinsky
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The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing. Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting. I'm there. And I'm doing it.
Frances Bean Cobain
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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.
Edward Hopper
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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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An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.
David Lynch
The Platters
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Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.
Rain Phoenix
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I'm always in the mood for pizza.
Emma Kenney
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What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man’s animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God’s sanctity
Georg Brandes
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Most people's lives are governed by willpower. An artist is someone who has no will.
Bram van Velde
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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.
Bram van Velde
