"There is no blue without yellow and without……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities."
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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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More Banalities Quotes
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Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which…
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple…
— Perry Anderson
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Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less…
— Robert C. Solomon
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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of…
— Clifford Geertz
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That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
— Mark Ruffalo
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite…
— Andre Gide
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Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
— Michael McKean
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The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities…
— Paul Cezanne
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He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
— Boris Pasternak
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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
— Alexander Chase
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