Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • You
  • Culture
  • Order

• I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Color
  • Hell

• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Will
  • Order
  • Divine

• Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Color

• I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Color
  • Frustration

• I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Light
  • Things
  • Color

• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Think
  • Color
  • Difference

• I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Love
  • Think
  • End

• I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Color
  • Doing
  • Same

• I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Suffering
  • Order
  • Cruel

• Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Sex
  • Goal
  • Color

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Women
  • Think

• [On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Color
  • Blind

• It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • Music
  • Today
  • Simple

• Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Revolution

• I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Soul
  • Holiness

• I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Color
  • Order
  • Arbitrary