"If I were to think of and dwell……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies."
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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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More Disastrous Quotes
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Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through…
— John Bonham
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
— Helena Bonham Carter
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My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
— Jan Carlzon
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If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected…
— Sandra Bullock
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Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.
— Bernhard Langer
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The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
— Robert Morley
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be…
— John Henry Jowett
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an…
— Lewis Mumford
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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