Zu Vincent Quotes

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the plans for my career.

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?

But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities

Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades.

And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

Together we knew that we could have success.

There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.

George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.

Wattpad is exciting because there is the opportunity to create content with depth.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.

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

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.