Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
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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.
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
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If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.
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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.
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The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this 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 taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.
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It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
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But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap
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There is peace even in the storm
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.