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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
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My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
Vincent Van Gogh -
In spite of everything, I shall rise again
Vincent Van Gogh -
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh -
You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.
Vincent Van Gogh -
What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.
Vincent Van Gogh -
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Conscience is a man's compass.
Vincent Van Gogh
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For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh -
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.
Vincent Van Gogh -
To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
Vincent Van Gogh -
There is peace even in the storm
Vincent Van Gogh -
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
Vincent Van Gogh -
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.
Vincent Van Gogh -
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
Vincent Van Gogh