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  • Van Gogh was impulsive. -- Joni Mitchell
  • It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. -- David Bailey
  • I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that. -- Vincente Minnelli
  • So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses. -- Bonnie Bassler
  • I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! -- Colin Mochrie
  • I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. -- Dennis Miller
  • If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. -- Juliet Stevenson
  • I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old. -- Takeshi Kitano
  • 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
  • I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!. -- Martin Kippenberger
  • My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. -- Eli Broad
  • Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing. -- Wayne Dyer
  • And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. -- David Hockney
  • 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
  • I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. -- Joni Mitchell
  • 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
  • I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I'd died, like Van Gogh. -- Steve-O
  • 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
  • I have Van Gogh's ear for music -- Stephen Fry
  • He has Van Gogh's ear for music. -- Billy Wilder
  • Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
  • Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. -- Arthur Koestler
  • Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival. -- Billy Cannon
  • Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
  • I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
  • It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
  • I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of. -- Ellen Forney
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  • I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art. -- Jarod Kintz
  • I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable. -- Billy Childish
  • I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown." -- Dennis Miller
  • You cannot be the good all the time "? sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
  • Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. -- Bill Griffith
  • What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? -- Peter D. Kramer
  • Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside. -- Mike Svob
  • The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain. -- Billy Cannon
  • I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh. -- Billy Childish
  • Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams. -- Bob Proctor
  • Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
  • I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. -- David Lynch
  • The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go. -- Pat Ament
  • I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. -- John Olsen
  • I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well. -- David Hockney
  • Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem. -- Patrick Demarchelier
  • Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? -- Frank Gehry
  • Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer. -- Eric Idle
  • My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh. -- Al Yankovic
  • Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
  • I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!." -- Martin Kippenberger
  • To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you. -- Luther E. Vann
  • My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me. -- Philip Schultz
  • I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me. -- Liza Campbell
  • My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love. -- Robert Genn
  • When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. -Vincent Van Gogh A mistake is simply another way of doing things. -- Katharine Graham
  • Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand. -- Jim Rowe
  • Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art. -- Paul Virilio
  • Michael Jordan didn't become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn't become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million. -- Jack D. Schwager
  • The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life. -- Steven Pressfield
  • I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love. -- Erwin McManus
  • Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life. -- Donald Kuspit
  • There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh. -- John Berger
  • If you're starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there's nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van Gogh as a sign that people still read their history books and care about art. -- Ben Feldman
  • It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne. -- Kate Hudson
  • I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did. -- Mick Farren
  • Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God! -- Stan Brakhage
  • It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout. -- Ben Shahn
  • Van Gogh on Christmas: And now we're slowly heading towards winter, and many dread it, but Christmas is wonderful, it's like the moss on the roofs and like the pine and the holly and the ivy in the snow. Isleworth, 10 November 1876 -- Liesbeth Heenk
  • Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes. -- Daniel Tammet
  • A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia. -- Kenneth Williams
  • It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation. -- Antonin Artaud
  • Autism's a very big spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, Einstein would probably be labeled autistic, Steve Jobs, half of Silicon Valley, you know, Van Gogh. And at the other end of the spectrum, you got much more severe handicaps where they never learn to speak. -- Temple Grandin
  • I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. -- Jerry Saltz
  • My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • 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
  • 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
  • In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. -- Maya Angelou
  • There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security. -- Derek Sivers
  • I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. -- Dick Bruna
  • I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions. -- Tupac Shakur
  • Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you. -- Steve Carell
  • Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well. -- Albert Brooks
  • Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write. -- Henri Nouwen
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