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I don't make plans. All my life, one artistic impulse has simply led me to another.


Chris Van Allsburg

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VINCENT VAN GOGH I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was gr...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that t...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly wh...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through l...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN 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