Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

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• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

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• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

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• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

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• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

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• Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

  

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• My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.

  

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• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  

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• Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

  

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• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  

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• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

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• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

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• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

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• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

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• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

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• As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.

  

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• CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.

  

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• For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Color
  • Use