Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.
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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.
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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.
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To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
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To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
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There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.
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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
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What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?
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It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
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There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
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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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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.
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I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.
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Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.
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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.
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I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
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There is peace even in the storm