Bram van Velde Quotes

Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.

Bram van Velde

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
  • Brain

• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Playing
  • Percent
  • Spend

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Peace

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Country
  • Family
  • Day

• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • World
  • Creative

• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Time
  • Real
  • Documentary

• People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Follow
  • Humbling

• You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Process

• You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Cool

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Charity

• We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game

• Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Question

• Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how to package myself.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Intelligent

• When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Painting

• Painting: Once upon a time a painting was a two-dimensional representation; now it is anything its author thinks is appropriate.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Time
  • Painting
  • Author

• Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Void
  • Nothingness