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Vincent van Gogh

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VINCENT VAN GOGH So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
BONNIE BASSLER I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Go...
BILL GRIFFITH I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him what...
DAVID LYNCH Dear brother,

I feel what Pa and Ma instinctively think about me (I don’t say reasonabl...
VINCENT VAN GOGH The sadness will last forever.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
DICK BRUNA I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. LAWRENCE It doesn't matter wich path you choose to walk upon; when openness is part of you, everything in you...
RENATE VULLINGS I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful...
MAURICE SENDAK I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the worl...
FRANCES HARDINGE Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. Ecclesia...
BIBLE I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
ÉMILE ZOLA I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know th...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
ELLEN FORNEY But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.
BENJAMIN F. WADE To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
BILLY CHILDISH Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be...
DANIEL BOR A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be t...
KEN DOHERTY If you pray, your path shall be clear.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
BIBLE Even at 80, I shall say that I am yet to start, Yes! I shall say that I am yet to start, for that sh...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
WALTER ANNENBERG I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a p...
FRANKA POTENTE And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this...
DAVID HOCKNEY Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
BRUCE DICKINSON Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always very nearly drowni...
TERRY PRATCHETT I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I o...
RICHARD HOVEY Daily confession;Today is my businessday,all my ventures shall be exceedingly profitable & prosperou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even at 80, I shall say that I am yet to start, for that shall give me the real reason never ever to...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Van Gogh was impulsive.
JONI MITCHELL What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
JOHN WEBSTER Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on my...
IVAN PANIN When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.
DOLLEY MADISON Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
DENNIS MILLER Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
When the flower of life has go...
LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER I shall be breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.
THOMAS HARDY Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his ri...
BIBLE The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of wh...
BIBLE The colors are a little bit like Van Gogh. Kind of wild. I need to get on medication.
DOUG WEST Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to g...
, "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS" You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart o...
DANIEL TAMMET I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.
NEMO NOX Those that rise without recourse to the poor shall soon be at the mercy of the poor.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you ...
THOMAS HARDY I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
ADA LOVELACE I shall always be a priest of love.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I shall always be a priest of love.
D. H. LAWRENCE Shall we not recover ourselves? Shall we not redeem ourselves to one another? Shall we not restore t...
L.M. BROWNING Some day I shall be President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be signific...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who thin...
JIM CARREY In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me, Guesse I may, what I must be: ...
ROBERT HERRICK When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of T...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and Englis...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop...
SHARON DRAPER When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life...
SHALL SINHA Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose dete...
SHALL SINHA Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions -- you can't d...
SHALL SINHA What I wish to be, I shall be by the grace of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETT Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!
MAURICE DRUON But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of t...
BIBLE While I live, I shall be grateful to God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock m...
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...
ANSEL ADAMS When words become unclear, I shall focus with prayer. When opinions become inadequate, I shall be co...
JOHN P. SCHILLER I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
THOMAS GRAY If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own...
MATTHEW SIMPSON I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enj...
JOANNE HARRIS Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shal...
MAHATMA GANDHI And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
BIBLE I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.
WILL ARNETT Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply?
UNKNOWN (regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved do...
RON CHERNOW So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreat...
JOHN EDWARD MASEFIELD I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I...
DIANE GLANCY I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fas...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never c...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it l...
TAKESHI KITANO I shall be so brief that I have already finished
SALVADOR DALí I shall be so brief that I have already finished
SALVADOR DALí I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at m...
CLARA SCHUMANN I have decided that the force shall be withdrawn.
KNUT VOLLEBAEK When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equival...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI I shall create a world without Pain. For Peace i shall start a War. For living I shall start Killing...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a liv...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH How difficult it is to be simple.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointme...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidenc...
VINCENT VAN GOGH La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]
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VINCENT VAN GOGH I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I wil...
VINCENT VAN GOGH To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
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VINCENT VAN GOGH If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH There is peace even in the storm
VINCENT VAN GOGH عزيزي ثيو:
إلى أين تمضي الحياة بي؟ ما الذي يصنعه العق...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Dear brother,

I feel what Pa and Ma instinctively think about me (I don’t say reasonabl...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a per...
VINCENT VAN GOGH At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more ri...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the crit...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I'm such a nobody.
VINCENT VAN GOGH If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.
THEO VAN GOGH The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.
THEO VAN GOGH I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails mean...
VINCENT NICHOLS Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round an...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worr...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not t...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I cou...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to f...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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