Bram van Velde Quotes
Mondrian? His mind was too subtle. He worked in the light. I work in the darkness.. .Mondrian is the Buddha of painting. I saw him once. You wondered how a man could radiate such charisma.
Bram van Velde
Quotes to Explore
I will keep painting until I die.
Yayoi Kusama
Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
Rachel Kushner
I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
Zach Woods
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
Fat Joe
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius
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
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
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
The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
Edward Hopper
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
I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
James Rosenquist
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
James Gray
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.
Danny Huston
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Philip Guston
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Kathryn Bigelow
I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.
David Carson
There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.
Barbara O'Neal
Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.
Ananda Shankar Jayant
. . . you may think I waste my breath
Pretending that there can be passion
That has more life in it than death
William Butler Yeats
One afternoon in early January, the weather showed a lack of character. There was no frost nor wind: the trees in the garden did not stir.
Brian Aldiss
Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.
Lara Fabian
Mondrian? His mind was too subtle. He worked in the light. I work in the darkness.. .Mondrian is the Buddha of painting. I saw him once. You wondered how a man could radiate such charisma.
Bram van Velde
