Quotes of: Van Keyword

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

The Architecture of Community

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

Walter Crane

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

Walter Murch

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Information Anxiety 2

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

A Little Compendium on That Which Matters

...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.

Life with Picasso

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

Re: CP

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

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

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

The Van Alen Legacy

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

The Writings of a Savage

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.

The Writings of a Savage

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

Alexander Dale Oen

I don't even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just... happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Clinton Sparks

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

John Zorn

I Have Found that If You Love Life Life will Love You Back

Round Up the Usual Subjects: Thoughts on Just about Everything

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Henri Matisse

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

Henri Matisse

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Norman Rockwell