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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 How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vince...
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 The sadness will last forever.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
ÉMILE ZOLA I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
DICK BRUNA Dear brother,

I feel what Pa and Ma instinctively think about me (I don’t say reasonabl...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful...
MAURICE SENDAK Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be...
DANIEL BOR I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Ceza...
NIGEL HAMILTON 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 The colors are a little bit like Van Gogh. Kind of wild. I need to get on medication.
DOUG WEST Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighb...
JAMES A. MICHENER Van Gogh was impulsive.
JONI MITCHELL I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
OSCAR WILDE Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps...
CLIVE CUSSLER Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to b...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL I was starting to think of her as the "Goth Van Gogh" on a good day or "Vampira" on a bad one. She t...
JUDITH M. FERTIG Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart o...
DANIEL TAMMET Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works...
PIET MONDRIAN He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pict...
JOHN RUSSELL What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pict...
JOHN RUSSELL I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
ELLEN FORNEY And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this...
DAVID HOCKNEY These deals are still relatively new to the market. People may be a little more nervous about where ...
SCOTT MACDONALD Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays
DEAN CAVANAGH It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointme...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Van Gogh couldn't have painted
the stars in your eyes.
NINA MOUAWAD Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its ...
JERRY SALTZ I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who thin...
JIM CARREY I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be e...
RACHEL G. FOX I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
BILLY CHILDISH I've gotten more into my feminine side. It's sexy but with an edge. I like to try new things, whethe...
ALICIA KEYS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
DAVID BAILEY The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
ROY WOOD Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But ...
BARRY LAM People often ask whether I consider myself successful. I don't yet, because there's so much ...
DAVID ULEVITCH Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo ...
DONALD TRUMP I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We a...
OSCAR WILDE Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Bye, Superstar. Try to be a little more independent.
DR. STEWART GOLDMAN I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We a...
OSCAR WILDE I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and mo...
JOHN LE CARRE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD More and more working people are finding themselves squeezed between child care and caring for a par...
KATHIE LINGLE I live in a World filled with laughter and torment. A dark filled place, where many fools come to di...
ENRIQUE VEGA Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.
ADAM COHEN I want to be positive but more than that, I want to be fair. If we don't approve this, there are peo...
LARRY GREEN More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, ...
PHILIP HAMMOND I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
BILL WATTERSON Whether you're tall or shorter, or a little bigger, more curves, skinny - you just have to be pr...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.
DON JOHNSON I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it l...
TAKESHI KITANO Because caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn't let go. Caring hurt more than a k...
VICTORIA SCHWAB I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of ...
ERICA DURANCE I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently re...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI He destroyed one of the finest cars on earth, maybe the finest. It's like taking a Van Gogh painting...
CHRIS BANNING I try to make everyone's day just a little more surreal.
BILL WATTERSON We believe, as more homeless people are assisted, and more families are kept in their relatively-sta...
GREG MEYERS I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be...
SIDNEY CROSBY For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I th...
AARON LAZAR I want to dominate a little more, just be a level beyond everyone else, ... I expect that from mysel...
ANDRE IGUODALA It is only when we feel deprived that we resent giving to others. Self-care does not mean you stop c...
BEVERLY ENGEL I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more lik...
LAURA BELL BUNDY This is more about just getting myself a little busier and focused on something I used to be good at...
PETE SAMPRAS The greatest artist, strives in an insane mind.
ENRIQUE VEGA Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in ...
MARGARET YOUNG Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume...
PADMA LAKSHMI I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm ...
ALEX MORGAN People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself han...
JULIE BURCHILL More than anything else, I want people to stop by and support the event, whether they have an item o...
MARC TURNER Life is more fun when you stop caring what other people think.
BLAKE MYCOSKIE Frank Sinatra changed people's approach to singing. Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, van Gogh, they...
SAVION GLOVER The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail.
HARLEY KING I probably remember more about 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' than Dick Van Dyke does.
NEIL FLYNN I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
YAMI GAUTAM To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn’t let go. Caring hurt more than a knife t...
V.E. SCHWAB Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, ...
MAYA ANGELOU Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was mean...
DON MCLEAN I got a little over 200 myself and I'll go back to the same people this time and then go back to oth...
DAVE STUDER I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent ...
PARK CHAN-WOOK I'm really passionate about things I enjoy, and I like to be out there doing things, and learnin...
STEVE NASH We must recreate an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children a...
MAYA ANGELOU The plan is simply to go up and survey the wreckage, see what condition it's in and whether it's rel...
PHIL NUYTTEN

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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The way to know life is to love many things.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
VINCENT VAN GOGH There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a w...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a stu...
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling...
VINCENT VAN GOGH If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With...
VINCENT VAN GOGH If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
VINCENT VAN GOGH Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
VINCENT VAN GOGH If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of...
VINCENT VAN GOGH If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Conscience is a man's compass.
VINCENT VAN GOGH If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VINCENT VAN GOGH But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more...
VINCENT VAN GOGH A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green...
VINCENT VAN GOGH How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of i...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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VINCENT VAN GOGH I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
VINCENT VAN GOGH Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
VINCENT VAN GOGH One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
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VINCENT VAN GOGH I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no l...
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, mak...
VINCENT VAN GOGH One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see on...
VINCENT VAN GOGH As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmos...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Conscience is a man's compass.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I wish they would only take me as I am.
VINCENT VAN GOGH If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voi...
VINCENT VAN GOGH In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
VINCENT VAN GOGH There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passer...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and ca...
VINCENT VAN GOGH An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Art is to console those who are broken by life.
VINCENT VAN GOGH What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
VINCENT VAN GOGH I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no l...
VINCENT VAN GOGH The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The sadness will last forever.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Lo...
VINCENT VAN GOGH For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Every man must bear his own burden.
VINCENT VAN GOGH There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
VINCENT VAN GOGH If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
VINCENT VAN GOGH ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
VINCENT VAN GOGH The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unb...
VINCENT VAN GOGH For my own part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it. But to look at the stars always makes m...
VINCENT VAN GOGH It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutt...
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VINCENT VAN GOGH I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors
VINCENT VAN GOGH The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in t...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put her...
VINCENT VAN GOGH In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gr...
VINCENT VAN GOGH In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live mo...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Red Vineyard at Arles.
VINCENT VAN GOGH And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it; till...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters...
VINCENT VAN GOGH There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculati...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I'm able to get by very well in life, and also with my work, without beloved God. But I, a suffering...
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especi...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Look here, I often feel the same in more than one respect--not just in financial things, but in art ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I dream my painting and then paint my dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and pai...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
VINCENT VAN GOGH For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don't care for anything else; that...
VINCENT VAN GOGH By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Winning isn't everything...it's the only thing.
VINCENT VAN GOGH But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...
VINCENT VAN GOGH The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends...
VINCENT VAN GOGH A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing.
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — some...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it
VINCENT VAN GOGH How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vince...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though d...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself head...
VINCENT VAN GOGH If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to la...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world
VINCENT VAN GOGH Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still chan...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my l...
VINCENT VAN GOGH There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler ou...
VINCENT VAN GOGH There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even�...
VINCENT VAN GOGH The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore
VINCENT VAN GOGH I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sent...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and tha...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At le...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
VINCENT VAN GOGH That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The...
VINCENT VAN GOGH However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was work...
VINCENT VAN GOGH How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought o...
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a...
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...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to st...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'
VINCENT VAN GOGH The more I think about it,the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others
VINCENT VAN GOGH There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, a...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH How difficult it is to be simple.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Conscience is a man's compass
VINCENT VAN GOGH What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrou...
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.]
VINCENT VAN GOGH If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just...
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
VINCENT VAN GOGH I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
VINCENT VAN GOGH It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, witho...
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...
VINCENT VAN GOGH I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.
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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