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Things 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…
- Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up…
- One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
- Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is…
- I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
- Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
- Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
- Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in…
- 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,…
- Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true…
- Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
- For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
- I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several…
- One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
- I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me…
- The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but…
- My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.
- Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
- Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
- I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn't dare to take things in…
- For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's…
- Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one's work.
- If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will…
- It is good to love many things
- It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle