Bram van Velde Quotes

Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself.

Bram van Velde

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Nature
  • Dream
  • Religion

• A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mother
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• I've always been a rough kid.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Rough

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Opportunity
  • Use
  • Prepared

• My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Girls

• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Good
  • Real
  • Heroes

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Wise

• I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.

  

  Taliesin

• a Masonic plot backed by the Jews

  

  Hutton Gibson

• They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life

• So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

  

  Daryl Hannah

• I'm not even very good at most video games.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Good

• I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

  

  Jennifer Wyatt

• I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • Gun
  • Texas

• With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • Done

• There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow
  • Movie

• The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

  

  Alfred Sisley
  • Painting
  • Problems
  • Canvas

• A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Superman

• All that is most valuable can be had for nothing. They come as presents from the hand of the Creator, and neither air nor sky, nor beauty, genius, health, or strength, can be bought or sold.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Health
  • Creator
  • Sold

• Painting lives only through the slide towards the unknown in oneself.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Slide