Art Quote by John Fowles

“Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays”

— Dean Cavanagh

“I chose Van Gogh.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman in distress,…

— Margaret Atwood

“We all can’t paint like Van Gogh. We might not be the ones who found cure for cancer or invented flying shoes but it…

— Nesta Jojoe Erskine

“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

“They'd paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. Maybe it's…

— Jim Butcher

“A canvas needs to be seduced; but Van Gogh, he, he raped it.”

— Zouave Milliet

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

— Vincente Minnelli

“It was an awesome time. I was extremely poor and had little to do. I painted my tiny bedroom Van Gogh Starry Night Purple,…

— Amy Poehler

“There were canvases in our backseat. We had tried to flog them at Max's Kansas City the night before, but we had failed. Paintings…

— Colum McCann

“I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I…

— Oscar Wilde

“Men who want nothing more than to show you their big huge-" She made a noise of half laughter, half disgust and shoved him…

— Jeanette Grey