"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague." — Vincent Van Gogh
"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."
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Vincent Van Gogh
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346 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh has 346 quotes on this site.
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling,…
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I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express…
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels…
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet,…
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a…
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
— Andre Balazs
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Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed.…
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work…
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
— Gary Bauer
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us.…
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