Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
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I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.
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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
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I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.
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Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.
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That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
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We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
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Painting demands an intelligent model.
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The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.
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The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
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Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.
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Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
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The more you love, the more you suffer.
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If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. 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.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
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Conscience is a man's compass.
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If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.
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For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.
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Yellow is capable of charming God.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.