Bram van Velde Quotes

Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.

Bram van Velde

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• Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Heaven

• I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • World
  • Want
  • Drama

• We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Religious
  • Democracy
  • Drama

• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial stuff of the painting.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Painting

• A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Single
  • Painting

• It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Great
  • Children
  • America

• Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Good
  • Painting
  • Cooking

• The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Different
  • Drama
  • Intimacy

• I love drama. I love to play an arc.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Drama

• The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • School
  • Drama

• Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • Women
  • Drama
  • King

• Being on 'The Office' prepared me for drama. Comedy got me ready, but once you get down to it, they're two sides of the same thing. I mean, the delivery has to be different - in drama, there's more time to breathe, and comedy's all about hitting the joke.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Comedy

• Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Wonder
  • Painting

• My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • Good
  • Father
  • Drama

• Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Painting

• I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

  

  Bruno Heller
  • People
  • Light
  • Drama

• No matter who I meet, I won't have any pressure.

  

  Ma Long
  • Matter
  • Pressure
  • Meet

• I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

  

  Count Basie
  • Up
  • Business
  • Names

• I gained this new sense of control over my love life because when I called myself a 'man repeller,' you assumed that being single is my choice. I'm man-repelling because that's how I want to dress. I'm not single because no men like me. I'm single because I choose fashion over a relationship.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Life
  • Men
  • Control

• I think this word 'disbelieve' would be the best of all possible worlds if everybody were an atheist or an agnostic or a humanist - his or her own particular brand - but as for compelling people to this, absolutely not.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • People
  • Atheist

• Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Drama
  • Painting