#us

One must work and dare if one really wants to live. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#live #must #really #wants #work

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#easy #everywhere #looking #paper #poetry

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

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#composition #enormous #fantasy #good #good taste

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#blame #face #glass #looking #use

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#most #profitable #righteous #same #thing

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#farmer #first #first of all #good #him

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#anybody #between #body #child #diverting

To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order. ↗

— Joe Gold

#any #clean #crap #give #good

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times. ↗

— Joe Gold

#did #everybody #i #just #thinks