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The best place for this kind of training is Holland where people, convinced of their utter innocence, do not use curtains. After dusk the windows turn into little stages on which actors act out their evenings. Sequences of images bathed in yellow, warm light are the individual acts of the same production entitled 'Life'. Dutch painting. Moving lives. ~ Olga Tokarczuk
Dutch Painting quotes by Olga Tokarczuk
I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the elements memorized; rattle off the kings and queens of Spain; define the significance of the Gatling gun; joke around in Latin; interpret the symbolism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old; recite Emily Dickenson; bake a perfect popover; build a shortwave radio out of a coconut; and know all the words to Hoagy Carmichael's "Two Sleepy People", Johnny Cash's "Five Feet High and Rising", and "You Got the Silver" by the Rolling Stones ... What we need is a president who is at least twelve kinds of nerd, a nerd messiah to come along every four years, acquire the Secret Service code name Poindexter, install a Revenge of the Nerds screen saver on the Oval Office computer, and one by one decrypt our woes. ~ Sarah Vowell
Dutch Painting quotes by Sarah Vowell
Nearly always in Dutch painting and often in the works of Giorgione or Titian, it is entirely independent of anything definitely poetical in the subject, a kind of form and choice in workmanship which is itself entirely satisfying, and is (as the Greeks would say) an end in itself. ~ Oscar Wilde
Dutch Painting quotes by Oscar Wilde
Dutch painting: daily life is enough. ~ Mason Cooley
Dutch Painting quotes by Mason Cooley
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. ~ David Bowie
Dutch Painting quotes by David Bowie
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. ~ John Hurt
Dutch Painting quotes by John Hurt
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery.
Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream. ~ Anais Nin
Dutch Painting quotes by Anais Nin
As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of some fallen angel. The sheer beauty of it, framed by all that rich black hair, was forever a surprise to her. ~ J.D. Robb
Dutch Painting quotes by J.D. Robb
Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. ~ Dianna Agron
Dutch Painting quotes by Dianna Agron
By the end of the interview, George and I had clicked....I mean, we weren't BFF's spray-painting hearts and our initials on freeway underpasses or anything. But we seemed to understand each other. ~ Christopher Paul Meyer
Dutch Painting quotes by Christopher Paul Meyer
Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that? ~ Banksy
Dutch Painting quotes by Banksy
In 1978 zip or postcodes were introduced in the Netherlands; they consist of four numbers followed by a space and then to capital letters and are replaced before the name of the town... they referred to the city block in a given street in which the house occurs and thus the Dutch postal code book is the size of a telephone book. ~ Bruce Donaldson
Dutch Painting quotes by Bruce Donaldson
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work. ~ Giorgio Moroder
Dutch Painting quotes by Giorgio Moroder
I found her standing on tiptoes, scanning a shelf that was indeed next to a painting of a dude on a horse. I thought he looked awfully irritated for a guy in such a spiffy ermine cape. ~ Rachel Hawkins
Dutch Painting quotes by Rachel Hawkins
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even my motivation for painting them is probably of no significance, I am trying to put a name to it here, as an articulation, parallel to the pictures, as it were, of my disquiet and of my opinion. ~ Gerhard Richter
Dutch Painting quotes by Gerhard Richter
Can you read and write in English?""English, Spanish and Dutch," she said. "My French is serviceable, too.""What do you know," the older man said, looking surprised. "I didn't realize you could study that here." It always seemed to amaze foreigners that they were not all running around in loincloths, praying to the rain gods. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Dutch Painting quotes by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Entertain only those thoughts which bring health, vitality and happiness in your life. Start now and think right for you are the painter of the canvas of your life. ~ Sanchita Pandey
Dutch Painting quotes by Sanchita Pandey
I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time. ~ Alyson Richman
Dutch Painting quotes by Alyson Richman
When Van Gogh painted The Starry Night as a swirling mass of cosmic energy, he may have been painting what he saw with neurotic eyes, but he was also painting what he saw with transcendent eyes. The first gave his painting mere form, the second gave it formless, universal emotion that connects directly to the viewer. ~ Amit Goswami
Dutch Painting quotes by Amit Goswami
Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts. ~ John Oliver
Dutch Painting quotes by John Oliver
All the world's a stage. Creative work is a kind of theater. The stage is your studio, your desk, or your workstation. The costume is your outfit - your painting pants, your business suit, or that funny hat that helps you think. The props are your materials, your tools, and your medium. The script is just plain old time. An hour here, or an hour there - just time measured out for things to happen. ~ Austin Kleon
Dutch Painting quotes by Austin Kleon
A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near. ~ Kazuaki Tanahashi
Dutch Painting quotes by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination. ~ Dito Montiel
Dutch Painting quotes by Dito Montiel
The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting. ~ Salvador De Madariaga
Dutch Painting quotes by Salvador De Madariaga
She looks so astonishing it's almost unreal, as though she'd slipped out of a painting perfectly formed, a thing of beauty, of art - of bright, vivid life in this cold, still place. ~ Natasha Ngan
Dutch Painting quotes by Natasha Ngan
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language. ~ Mike Svob
Dutch Painting quotes by Mike Svob
None were particularly interesting, although I got a kick out of a note from the Philadelphia Zoo suggesting that since the tiger was not entirely reliable around humans, perhaps Mr. Willing would consider a leopard for his painting instead. It had been a pet until the demise (natural) of its owner and would, if not firmly admonished, climb into a person's lap, purring, and drool copiously.
I pulled a sheet of scrap paper (the Stars spent a lot of time sending all-school e-mails about recycling) out of my bag and made a note on the blank side: "Leopard in The Lady in DeNile?" It wasn't my favorite, Cleopatra Awaiting the Return of Anthony. It was a little OTT, loaded with gold and snake imagery and, of course, the leopard. Diana hadn't liked the painting,either, apparently; she was the one who'd given it the Lady in DeNile nickname.I wondered if the leopard had drooled on her.
None of the papers were personal, but they were Edward's and some were special, if you knew about his life. There was a bill from the Hotel Ritz in Paris in April 1890, and one from Cartier two months later for a pair of Tahitian pearl drop earrings. Diana was wearing them in my favorite photograph of the two of them: happy and visibly tanned, even in black and white, holding lobsters on a beach in Maine. "I insisted we let them go," Diana wrote in a letter to her niece. "Edward had a snit.He wanted a lobster dinner, but I could not countenance eating a fellow model. ~ Melissa Jensen
Dutch Painting quotes by Melissa Jensen
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Teaching barren moors to smile,
Painting pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths
Whence a smokeless incense breathes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dutch Painting quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting. ~ Rodney Atkins
Dutch Painting quotes by Rodney Atkins
I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators - Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in particular, Burne-Jones and other Pre-Raphaelites, and the Arts-&-Crafts movement they engendered. I'm continually inspired by Rembrandt, Breughel (I've wondered whether his brilliant "Tower of Babel" had inspired Tolkien's description of Minas Tyrith), Hieronymous Bosch, Albrecht Durer, and Turner; it's not necessarily that they influence my work in any particular direction, more that their example raises my spirits, re-affirms my belief in the power of images to move and delight us, and shows me how much further I have to go, how much is possible. Having visited Venice and Florence for the first time, I am besotted with the Italian Renaissance artists - Botticelli, Bellini, da Vinci and others. Their work is calm, controlled, and yet each face and landscape contains such passion. In Botticelli's paintings, every pebble and every leaf is rendered with a religious devotion; there is reverence inherent in paying such close attention to every stone, turning painting itself into a form of worship, an act of prayer. ~ Alan Lee (artist)
Dutch Painting quotes by Alan  Lee (artist)
On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning. ~ Mark Zero
Dutch Painting quotes by Mark Zero
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Painting quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. ~ Orhan Pamuk
Dutch Painting quotes by Orhan Pamuk
In order to break your child's negative cycle, you must first break your own cycle of negative perception. You must take on a strengths-based perspective. Look for the good, which in some cases may require you to get creative. Do this even when it's hard. This sends a powerful message to children even when they are behaving poorly. You are sending the message that you believe in them, you see that there is more to them than their bad behavior, and you are painting a future picture of what they can become. ~ Daniel Bates
Dutch Painting quotes by Daniel Bates
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done. ~ R. B. Kitaj
Dutch Painting quotes by R. B. Kitaj
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark. ~ Allison Mackie
Dutch Painting quotes by Allison Mackie
We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain. ~ Mark Tobey
Dutch Painting quotes by Mark Tobey
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. ~ Robert Rauschenberg
Dutch Painting quotes by Robert Rauschenberg
I got incerdibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I exsited at all...
"Well I'm not talking about painting the Mona LIsa or curing limeter."
"Yeah?"
"If you hadn't done it, human history would have been one way..."
"Uh-huh?"
"But you did do it, so...?"
I stood on the bed, pointed my fingers at the fake stars, and screamed: "I changed the course of human history!"
"That's right."
"I changed the universe!"
"You did."
"I'm God!"
"You're an atheist."
"I don't exist!"
I fell back onto the bed, into his arms, and we cracked up together. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Dutch Painting quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
Bless ... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows. ~ Emily Carr
Dutch Painting quotes by Emily Carr
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." Dutch proverb ~ Nana Awere Damoah
Dutch Painting quotes by Nana Awere Damoah
What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas. ~ Ed Askew
Dutch Painting quotes by Ed Askew
In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming. ~ Richard Lindzen
Dutch Painting quotes by Richard Lindzen
The retaining membrane that held Dutch culture together for more than a century was a marvel of elasticity. Responding to appropriate external stimuli, it could expand or contract as the conditions of its survival altered. Under pressure, it could tighten to compress the Dutch into a sense of their indissoluble unity. In more expansive times it could relax and swell, allowing for internal differentiation and the absorption of a whole gamut of beliefs, faiths and even tongues. An omniscient kind of social filter swallowed up those foreign bodies and spat them out again as burghers: civically salubrious and residentially reliable. ~ Simon Schama
Dutch Painting quotes by Simon Schama
Was there some subtle affinity between the chemical atoms that shaped themselves into form and colour on the canvas and the soul that was within him? Could it be that what that soul thought, they realized? -- that what it dreamed, they made true? ~ Oscar Wilde
Dutch Painting quotes by Oscar Wilde
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist. ~ Cennino Cennini
Dutch Painting quotes by Cennino Cennini
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. ~ Alanis Morissette
Dutch Painting quotes by Alanis Morissette
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint ... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case. ~ Etel Adnan
Dutch Painting quotes by Etel Adnan
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. ~ Peter Wright
Dutch Painting quotes by Peter Wright
In our minds lives the madonna image
the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model
the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers. ~ Lillian B. Rubin
Dutch Painting quotes by Lillian B. Rubin
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it. ~ Francis Bacon
Dutch Painting quotes by Francis Bacon
He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands. ~ Alexander McCall Smith
Dutch Painting quotes by Alexander McCall Smith
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Dutch Painting quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
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