Van Der Velden Painter Quotes & Sayings

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul. — Fernando Pessoa

Harry heard the final, quavering note from the bagpipe with relief. — J.K. Rowling

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.' — Bill Cosby

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy. — Kate Micucci

You got emotions plastered all over your face like makeup — Mati Raine

I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.

The artist Paul Klee refers to this simple act as 'taking a line for a walk', an apt description of my own basic practice: allowing the tip of a pencil to wander through the landscape of a sketchbook, motivated by a vague impulse but hoping to find something much more interesting along the way. Strokes, hooks, squiggles and loops can resolve into hills, faces, animals, machines -even abstract feelings- the meanings of which are often secondary to the simple act of making (something young children know intuitively). Images are not preconceived and then drawn, they are conceived as they are drawn. Indeed, drawing is its own form of thinking, in the same way birdsong is 'thought about' within a bird's throat. — Shaun Tan