Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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I wish they would take me as I am.
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There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
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To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
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Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.
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I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
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I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.
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Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
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I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
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I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
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I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.