Quotes of: Van Keyword

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

The Architecture of Community

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

The Art Spirit

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

The Art Spirit

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

The Art Spirit

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

The Art Spirit

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

The Art Spirit

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Walter Murch

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Yves Tanguy

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

The Square Book

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

Liefde in tijden van cholera

I’m not Helen Keller—I’m Van Gogh. It’s not that I can’t hear, it’s that I don’t use my ears.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

A Passion for Seeing: On Being an Image Maker

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

Twee eenvoudige vragen die de basis vormen voor de doelgroepbepaling zijn: Wat is het? Wat komt hij doen?

Webdesign van concept tot realisatie

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Donald Judd

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Emil Nolde

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

LeRoy Neiman

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Lawrence Welk

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

Natalie du Toit

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Paul Kane

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Henry Moore