Gogh Quotes

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

Care, Long, Enjoy

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

Women, Great, Men

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

Music, Ear, Van

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
Jerry Saltz

Die, After, Against

'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

Heart, Him, Night

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

Money, Value, Content

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

Love, Another, Actually

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, Book, Person

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

Art, Few, Themselves

Van Gogh was impulsive.
Joni Mitchell

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

Last, Year, Community

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

Cats, Clown, Planet

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!
Colin Mochrie

Artists, Sing, Favorite

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Bill Griffith

Art, Romantic, Vision

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

Enough, Here, Off

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

Story, Involved, Liked

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.
Vincente Minnelli

Real, Worked, Places

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

Work, Artist, Room

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
Dick Bruna

Nice, Thought, Become

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

Life, Forward, Step

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

Work, Thought, Become

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, Feeling, Human

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