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Man Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent…
- Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our…
- To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one…
- Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is…
- I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less,…
- I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he…
- I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy…
- There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
- Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
- What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in…
- Conscience is a man's compass.
- Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a…
- The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its…
- If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a…
- By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle