Gogh Quotes

74 Gogh quotes by 58 unique authors

I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go. — Pat Ament
At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the… — Michael Leunig
Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed… — Jack D. Schwager
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly… — James A. Michener
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable. — Billy Childish
I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of. — Ellen Forney
My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt… — Al Yankovic
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. -Vincent Van Gogh… — Katharine Graham
I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of… — Takeshi Kitano
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I… — Maurice Sendak
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts… — John Berger
It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh… — Ben Shahn
I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated… — Emily Carr
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come… — Robert Genn
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? — Frank Gehry
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as… — Stephen Fry
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level,… — David Hockney
I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. — Dennis Miller
Van Gogh was impulsive. — Joni Mitchell
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. — Jerry Saltz
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with… — Jerry Saltz
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought… — Jerry Saltz
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last… — Otto Schily
He has Van Gogh's ear for music. — Billy Wilder

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