Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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No hidden talents, but I have a lot of hobbies. Acrylic painting - I got a whole set, and I light candles at night and sit there and paint and look out on Lake Michigan.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.
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To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
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They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
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A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
