A Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. — © Vincent Van Gogh
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.
I am pretty bad at doing my makeup myself, so these days, I am learning from a makeup artist. I treat my face as a sketchbook and am gradually trying things that I learned from the artist.
You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation.
I am a living witness, that if you are brave enough to dream it, it CAN happen
Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.
Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view.
You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.
I've got a cool sketchbook that I am selling on Amazon.
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy with them, drawing, coloring, scribbling. I have not stopped scribbling.
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".
Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling.
When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.
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