St. Vincent Quotes

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.

La tristesse durera toujours.]

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

:You Can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

I thought I would be understood without words.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.

It's always to soon to quit!

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.

I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.

When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?