Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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.
Kate Chopin
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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.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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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.
Gail Carson Levine
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
William Hazlitt
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My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.
Michael Eric Dyson
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I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me 'sir.'
Joan Rivers
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I grew up in the Midwest, and I was a short, fat, little Jewish kid... but it was just different. People didn't understand, so I had to deal with it. One day, I physically dealt with it, and it never happened again. I'm not saying that's the way to do it, but you have to stand up for yourself, period, end of story.
Bill Goldberg
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A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh