"What am I in most people's eyes? A……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody."
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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 Disagreeable Quotes
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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it…
— Winston Churchill
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when…
— Leonard Cohen
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I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the…
— Hiram Maxim
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One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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You can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Zig Ziglar
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
— James Boswell
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
— Samuel Johnson
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
— John of the Cross
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Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.)…
— Ambrose Bierce
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