A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.


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Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN
Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT
The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN
I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON
Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
DRIES VAN NOTEN
Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
DRIES VAN NOTEN
I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori...
VAN WYCK BROOKS
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me...
VAN WYCK BROOKS
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j...
VAN WYCK BROOKS
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led ...
VAN WYCK BROOKS
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
VAN WYCK BROOKS
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wh...
VAN WYCK BROOKS
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
VAN WYCK BROOKS
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
VAN WYCK BROOKS
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
VAN WYCK BROOKS
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris...
HARRIET VAN HORNE
One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
HARRIET VAN HORNE
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
MARTIN VAN BUREN
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by se...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most hone...
MARTIN VAN BUREN
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
GUS VAN SANT
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsessio...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven...
DICK VAN DYKE
Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN