Vincent Van Goghs Art Style Quotes & Sayings

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama

I was jut vamping for time to make a few self-improvements: I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star, it's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. — Truman Capote

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder. — Morgan Ensberg

My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner. — Deborah Harkness

into her bed purely for informational — Cathryn Fox

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. — Michael Pollan

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing. — Tim Hudson

Our relationship with our world is the overriding template for our relationship with everything. — David Ault

Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand. By using the technique of embroidery, traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of it's opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that 'women's work' is light and easy. Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid ancillary jobs such as cleaning, caring, and catering, all traditionally considered to be 'women's work' — Eliza Bennett

Dracula, who said while they drove a wooden stake into his heart, Boy, I sure hope this is heartburn. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage. — Nicholson Baker

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. — Morgan Freeman

I made plans out of hope, expectation, desire, and duct tape, and I broke those plans with my bare hands. — Jarod Kintz