Bram van Velde Quotes
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
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The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.
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Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
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Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.
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Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.
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Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.
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Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
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For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.
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It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.
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Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.
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Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.
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Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.
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I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.
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We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.
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The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
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Yes, perhaps there is some enjoyment in it his paintings too, somewhere.
