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I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint. — Vincent van Gogh · 1888The best pictures, and from a technical point of view, the most complete, seen from nearby, are but patches of color next to each other, and only make and effect at a certain distance. — Vincent van Gogh · 1885In order to approach the spiritual in art, one employs reality as little as possible... This explains logically why primary forms are employed. Since these forms are abstract, an abstract art comes into being. — Piet Mondrian · 1914Human nature2 quotes
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. — Anne Frank · 1944If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Nature of God2 quotes
God and all the attributes of God are eternal. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Art criticism1 quote
The best pictures, and from a technical point of view, the most complete, seen from nearby, are but patches of color next to each other, and only make and effect at a certain distance. — Vincent van Gogh · 1885Art market1 quote
I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint. — Vincent van Gogh · 1888Beautiful women1 quote
I think the peasant girl is more beautiful than a lady, in her dusty, patched blue skirt and bodice, which get the most delicate hues from weather, wind, and sun. But if she puts on a lady's dress, she loses her peculiar charm. — Vincent van Gogh · 1885Beauty1 quote
I think the peasant girl is more beautiful than a lady, in her dusty, patched blue skirt and bodice, which get the most delicate hues from weather, wind, and sun. But if she puts on a lady's dress, she loses her peculiar charm. — Vincent van Gogh · 1885Bragging and boasting1 quote
It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Collective guilt1 quote
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. — Anne Frank · 1944Courage1 quote
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent van Gogh · 1881Fear1 quote
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Freedom1 quote
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677God1 quote
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677God and nature1 quote
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Good and evil1 quote
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Hope1 quote
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Idealism1 quote
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. — Anne Frank · 1944Immortality1 quote
I want to go on living even after death! — Anne Frank · 1944Impressionism1 quote
The best pictures, and from a technical point of view, the most complete, seen from nearby, are but patches of color next to each other, and only make and effect at a certain distance. — Vincent van Gogh · 1885Life1 quote
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent van Gogh · 1881Man as social animal1 quote
Man is a social animal. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Nature1 quote
Nature abhors a vacuum. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Nature of man1 quote
Man is a social animal. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Optimism1 quote
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. — Anne Frank · 1944Pantheism1 quote
God, or in other words, Nature. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Peace1 quote
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Poetry1 quote
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. — Vincent van Gogh · 1883Pride1 quote
Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Relativism1 quote
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. — Erasmus · 1536Starving artist1 quote
I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint. — Vincent van Gogh · 1888