#ear

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#behavior #courtesy #heart #love #outward

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#cannot #hear #means #paint #say

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#i #move #old #really #still

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#i #into #lost #mind #my soul

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#came #chimney #continue #ever #hearth

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#appear #beautiful #clarity #dream #experience

There's no sex in Middle Earth. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#middle #middle earth #sex

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#certainly #clergyman #fellow #fellow men #heart

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#certain #dearer #man #nearer #others

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #ago #concerning #fatigue #five