#gogh

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for. ↗

— John Russell

#beautiful #beings #better #come #exactly

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. ↗

— Otto Schily

#attacks #committed #community #filmmaker #gogh

I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beautiful #being #book #gogh #i

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#artist #could #gogh #i #if i could

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#call #care #enjoy #gogh #i

I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ear #funny #humor #life #music

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#commercial-viability-of-art #tigers #van-gogh #art

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#van-gogh #love

The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the life of a man as it flows past him, are all one and the same thing. The sole unity in life is the unity of rhythm. A rhythm to which we all dance; men, apples, ravines, ploughed fields, carts among the corn, houses, horses, and the sun. The stuff that is in you, Gauguin, will pound through a grape tomorrow, because you and the grape are one. When I paint a peasant labouring in the field, I want people to feel the peasant flowing down into the soil, just as the corn does, and the soil flowing up into the peasant. I want them to feel the sun pouring into the peasant, into the field, the corn, the plough, and the horses, just as they all pour back into the sun. When you begin to feel the universal rhythm in which everything on earth moves, you begin to understand life…. ↗

— Irving Stone

#life

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. ↗

— David Bailey

#few #gogh #like #only #themselves