Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

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• I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • College

• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
  • Journey
  • Stupid

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Age
  • Media

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Action
  • Fate

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Miracle
  • Extraordinary

• I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Color
  • Emotion

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Live
  • Dark
  • Paris

• The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • People
  • Bad
  • Today

• Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Warrior

• The great difficulty and crowning glory of art is to paint, to draw, to write, naturally and simply.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Great
  • Art

• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Progress

• God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • May
  • Pieces