Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Poor
  • Because
  • Resources

• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Books
  • Ugly
  • Universal

• I've felt ugly and insecure.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Ugly
  • Felt
  • Insecure

• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Poor
  • Down

• I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poor
  • Concerned
  • Oppression

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Baby
  • Ugly
  • Nasty

• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Family
  • Love
  • Hate

• When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Teenager
  • Result

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Song
  • Ugly

• They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Snow
  • Nasty
  • Horses

• Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Question
  • Attitude

• I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Ugly
  • Devil
  • Colors

• You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Ambition
  • Poor

• What listener wants to be torn and shaken when he doesn’t have to be? We have made unspeakable mean indescribable: it really means nasty.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Nasty
  • Listener

• My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.

  

  Tom Heinsohn
  • Mother
  • College
  • Poor

• Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Good
  • Teacher

• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Ugly
  • Poor
  • Nasty