A Quote by Bonnie Bassler

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

Bonnie Bassler

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Bonnie Bassler
American - Scientist
Born: 1962

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.

Pierre Berge

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother

Hokusai

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought.

Fran Lebowitz

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

Irving Stone

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

I've always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.

Michael C. Hall

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].