Van Gogh Quotes
70 quotes by 56 authors
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
— David Bailey
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My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was…
— Eli Broad
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My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van…
— Jim Carrey
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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love…
— Maya Angelou
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are…
— Jack Kerouac
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.…
— Hokusai
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged…
— Arthur Koestler
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Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are…
— Clare Boylan
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If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
— Juliet Stevenson
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I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
— David Hockney
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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which…
— Charles Bukowski
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
— Jack Kerouac
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Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
— Bill Griffith
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Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.
— Patrick Demarchelier
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Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold…
— Eric Idle
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Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours,…
— Declan Lynch
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the…
— Loren Eiseley
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