Quotes of: Van Keyword

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Louise Bourgeois

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Luis Barragan

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

Lucian Freud

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

Lucian Freud

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

Lucian Freud

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Leon Krier

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

LeRoy Neiman

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

Larry Poons

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

Leonard Slatkin

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

Leonard Slatkin

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

Leonard Slatkin

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Michael Arad

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

Michael Arad

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

Mose Allison

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

Mose Allison

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

Mose Allison

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

Mose Allison

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.

Marc Chagall

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.

Marc Chagall

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Morris Graves

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Michael Heizer