I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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More quotations from Vincent Van Gogh

I have had a very thin time of it these days. My money ran out on Thursday, and I have lived for four days on twenty-three cups of coffee.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

—Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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More quotations tagged with “liveliness”

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

—Henri Matisse

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Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.

—Samuel Johnson

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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

—Salman Rushdie

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