#gogh

If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint - and that voice will be silenced. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life

Van Gogh was impulsive. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#impulsive #van #van gogh

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#brian #comes #directed #equivalent #forward

Art is to console those who are broken by life. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life #quote #van-gogh #vincent-van-gogh #art

Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end up returning to the world in search of the human companionship that always eluded him, even in childhood, even in his own family ↗

— Steven Naifeh

#family

Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them art; some paint stars studded skies like van Gogh; or Chopin’s music conquers the hearts of millions while the execrable disco music blaring out of the open windows of a car have also their audience. Some describe love in high-flown flowery language and you identify yourself with the hero and the heroine and feel yourself in the seventh heaven while some give such a lamentable picture of it that you almost curse it! ↗

— T. Afsin Ilgar

#chopin #love #painting #van-gogh #art

We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own. ↗

— Alice Walker

#inspirational #life #vincent-van-gogh #inspirational

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. ↗

— Dennis Miller

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I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#because #gogh #i #i always #involved