It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. - Vincent Van Gogh - Quotesmemo.com

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I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

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Vincent Van Gogh

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

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Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

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I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

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I never get tired of the blue sky.

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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

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I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

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U.G. Krishnamurti

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The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

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Yisroel Dovid Weiss

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Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion. The reason why they use the name Israel, the Star of David, hijacking, stealing the identity of Judaism and the Jewish people is in order to gain a legitimacy for their existence that should lead people to say, 'oh, it is God given to them' and that they should use fear and intimidate people from speaking out against their actions because they will call those that do anti Semitic; it couldn't be anything further from the Truth.

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