"There is something intimate about painting I cannot……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings."
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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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More Cannot Explain Quotes
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a…
— B.F. Skinner
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
— Georges Braque
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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
— J. Richard Clarke
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime…
— Peter Singer
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I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.
— Chris Noth
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Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the…
— Robert Adams
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel…
— B.F. Skinner
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power…
— Camille Paglia
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If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to…
— John Hagee
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I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't…
— Don Bluth
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . .…
— Edward Everett
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