Kingdom of the Netherlands

Quotes & Thinkers from Kingdom of the Netherlands

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"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

Vincent van Gogh· b. 1853View quote →

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"Of course I should be very happy to sell a drawing but I am happier still when a real artist like Weissenbruch says about an unsalable??? study or drawing: "That is true to nature, I could work from that myself."

"I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find."

"Henri Nouwen on Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son"

"We showed the world you could enjoy being a footballer; you could laugh and have a fantastic time. I represent the era which proved that attractive football was enjoyable and successful, and good fun to play too."

"As for the Rosenkavalier waltzes...how could I have done those without a thought of the laughing genius of Vienna?"

"images of his art, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"There is still some study here for the Dutch landscape, and I believe the best I can do is to stay some time longer."

"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"

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Marie Bilders-van Bosse

Art

1837–1900

"images of her painting art in the rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost."

"Thijs, Thijs, you came to a people , when they were doing well, now you must help them, when they are in distress."

"Isaac and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer and I also got a wipe of it.."

"Made desperate attempts - worked for 3 weeks on a self-portrait intended for you, have scratched off everything yesterday! Maybe I can go on with it again in the studio ."

"is a name without any meaning. ...We have, in fact, not the slightest inkling of what it's real significance is. It is put in the equations in order to give the greatest possible degree of mathematical generality."

"Acquaintances, family, posing for me? - Oh no, please no acquaintances, no nephews or nieces.. .If I need them, I take models; am I searching for myself, tripping through the neighborhoods.."

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Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"A war is raging within me that burns everything. So I can begin again."

"I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing."

"Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear."

"Social change will be viewed as a push-pull process in which a Society is at once pulled forward by its own magnetic images of an idealized future and pushed from behind by its realized past."

"My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine."

"Do you know about storks? Storks on your roof bring all kinds of good luck."

"I am searching for a tone, which we call 'colored grey'. I mean that all colors, even the strongest, can be brought together in such a way as to give the impression of a warm, vital grey."

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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

Art

Hague School

1803–1862

"The free artist must also have the spunk to tear himself away from his first ideas, for experience teaches us that these are not always pure, but often false."

"Write a paper promising salvation, make it a 'structured' something or a 'virtual' something, or 'abstract', 'distributed' or 'higher-order' or 'applicative' and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult."

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George Hendrik Breitner

Art

Hague School

1857–1923

"I have also been working on the large canvas for a few months. and it has turned into a cavalry charge, which I hope for sure to be able to exhibit in Spring."

"It is a peculiarity of time that in retrospect it appears so compact, an indivisible solid object, a dish with only one smell and one flavor."

"The architecture of a system can be defined as the functional appearance of the system to the user."

"The Dooyeweerd Centre for Christian Philosophy"

"Like my friend is saying the fans are saying that. No, the fans are saying "Louis Van Gaal's army! Louis Van Gaal's army!" So also the fans are satisfied with Louis Van Gaal and my players are also satisfied with me"

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Jacoba van Heemskerck

Art

1876–1923

"' Jacoba van Heemskerck - A Rediscovery; exhibition-text of the Gemeentemuseum The Hague, August - Nov. 2005"

"European art has developed from mimetic-ism and only today is arriving at an elementary plastic art."

"The Portuguese had undertaken their voyages towards the southern hemisphere in spite of the science of their day... they followed an irresistible urge, which went against their scientific and religious convictions."

"Mirror symmetry is concerned with counting the number of holomorphic curves on Calabi-Yau manifolds, i.e. compact Kähler manifolds X with trivial canonical bundle KX."

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Bert Blyleven

b. 1951

"During the same broadcast, Blyleven asked guest Ace Young if he "got lucky" with show host Paula Abdul."

"Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue. Its subtext is fuck context."

"many free images of Kruyder's paintings in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam"

"The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage."

"biographical facts and dates of W. Nuijen, in the Dutch R.K.D. Archive, The Hague"

"The most pressing question of our time is this: Is European society to be taken over by a radical invasion of Muslim immigrants?"

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Notable Quotes

"Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

— Vincent van Gogh, b. 1853View →

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

— Vincent van Gogh, b. 1853View →

"It may be noted that in Neo-Plastic art the crucial thing is the right angel, that is, the right-angle lines. And not whether the position of the lines is vertical or horizontal.. .So it is possible to make very beautiful things while placing the lines in a diagonal position."

— Piet Mondrian, b. 1872View →

"At the very moment when my ego is unprooted and freed of intellectual activities and values, the realization of what is still unknown and uncreated, the silent 'non-form' unity emerges, appearing as childish schizophrenia. The indefinable beginning takes form"

— Karel Appel, b. 1921View →

"In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost."

— Piet Mondrian, b. 1872View →

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