"I painted two pictures of myself lately, one……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.... photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love or respect for the human being that is portrayed."
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Vincent Van Gogh
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346 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
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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 believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the…
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them…
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such…
— Albert Einstein
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable…
— Martin Luther
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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy,…
— H. L. Mencken
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— Susan Sontag
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Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and…
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