Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

Do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

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• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Problem
  • Model
  • Seeing

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Catholic

• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Words
  • Person
  • Enemy

• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Career
  • Adapt
  • VIP

• An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Intellectual

• The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

  

  Ma Jaya
  • Stop
  • Simple
  • Practice

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• The only sin is stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sin
  • Stupidity

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Morning
  • Sex
  • Married

• If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Rest
  • Taken
  • Needs

• I went to public school up until junior high.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Death
  • Society
  • Self-help

• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • Perfection
  • Simplicity
  • Models

• I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Mean
  • Slave
  • Congress

• There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • American
  • Models
  • Expects

• Do not become the slave of your model.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Slave
  • Models
  • Quench