Quotes of: Van-halen Keyword

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.

Sol LeWitt

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.

Thomas Kinkade

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Thom Mayne

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus]

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

Headhunting In The Solomon Islands: Around The Coral Sea

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

The Hearing Trumpet

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

The Square Book

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

The Metropolis of Tomorrow

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Noa Noa

The message was clear for baby boomers everywhere: Kurt Cobain was not merely some rock 'n' roll icon who couldn't handle drugs. In ways that were important to recognize, he was every parent's child.

Nirvana: The Chosen Rejects

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

The Van Alen Legacy

Al eens geprobeerd een huis te (laten) bouwen zonder bouwtekeningen? Probeer dan ook geen website te bouwen zonder Internet Project Plan.

Webdesign van concept tot realisatie

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

The Writings of a Savage