Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

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• I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Like
  • Artist

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Education

• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Artist
  • Worst
  • Unhappy

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Working
  • Vacation

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Never
  • Intellectual

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Creation

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Goals

• Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Never
  • Piano

• I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Happy

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Life
  • Important
  • True

• The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • God
  • Promise

• A creative man is achieved by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to defeat others.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Achieve

• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Music
  • Movies
  • Grace

• When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Trust

• In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Life
  • Death
  • Artist