
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
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1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.”
Inaugural Address (4 March 1853).
“Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.”
Quote about the painting 'Piano lesson' of Matisse, Van Velde saw around 1925 for the first time and inspired him strongly during the 1930's
1970's
Source: article Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht, by Paul Groot, newspaper NRC Handelsblad, 1979 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans)
“My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.”
Interview with Sir David Frost on the BBC, 1972.
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“The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.