"The cure for him would be to take……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather."
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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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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
— Benjamin Banneker
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Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
— Syd Barrett
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
— Annie Besant
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which…
— Andrea Bocelli
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and…
— Bono
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my…
— David Bowie
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the…
— Jeff Bridges
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours…
— Steve Buscemi
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