Bram van Velde Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
-
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
-
Managers are the most creative people in the world.
-
As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
-
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.
-
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
-
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
-
Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
-
It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance.
-
A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
-
No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just 'it'.
-
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.
-
When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
-
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.
-
Everyone has a story.
-
Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
-
The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
-
I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.
-
Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves.
-
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
-
..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
-
Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
-
Painting doesn't interest me.. .What I paint is beyond painting.
