Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.
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Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
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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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Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.
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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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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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The sadness will last forever.
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
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Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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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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No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
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If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
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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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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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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.