"It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me."

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Source : "Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht", by Paul Groot, newspaper "NRC Handelsblad", 1979.

Bram van Velde

#Color Quotes #Intensity Quotes #Revealing Quotes

“Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.”
“Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.”
“Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.”
“All I'm asking for is what I want.”
“I haven't any thirst for revenge.”
“Every step I take is a blessing.”
“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
“So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.”

Source : "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.

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