Bram van Velde Quotes

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

Bram van Velde

• Painting
• Void
• Nothingness

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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
  • Super

• 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

• I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • People
  • Failure
  • Caring

• I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.

  

  Amor Towles

• Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

  

  Eric Fischl
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Lost

• My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

  

  Alex Colville
  • Painting
  • Element
  • Disparate

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

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Void
  • Nothingness