Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Trying
  • Freedom
  • Creativity

• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • I Can
  • Retire
  • Pedal

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Yourself
  • Creativity
  • Scary

• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Commitment

• Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Without

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Style
  • Suits
  • Stick

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Man

• I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Criticism
  • Circle

• It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • World
  • Future
  • Want

• Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Average

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Year

• I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Style
  • Easy
  • Relaxed

• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Music
  • Brain

• So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Joyful

• Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Rules
  • Businesses
  • Robes

• Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • People
  • Person
  • Eye

• I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Eye
  • Looks
  • Paint