Bram van Velde Quotes
It is important to see that my paintings are ultimately stimulating. They are not at all the kind of thing that inspires despair.
Quotes to Explore
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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India always inspires me.
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There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
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The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
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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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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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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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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
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We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
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I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.
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... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
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I don’t know if I've got close enough in two recent paintings he made to what I was really trying to achieve. But at least I've tried, I've made the attempt. I've done what I could. I've gone as far as my powers permitted.
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You should be watching 'Red Band Society' because it's a show that inspires us to live. I feel like you'll get connected to these characters, and they teach you something that you can apply to your daily life.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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It is important to see that my paintings are ultimately stimulating. They are not at all the kind of thing that inspires despair.
