Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.
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An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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I never get tired of the blue sky.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!
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But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.
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What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.
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Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]
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Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
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There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
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No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
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Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.