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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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
Vincent Van Gogh -
You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
Vincent Van Gogh -
One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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!
Vincent Van Gogh -
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.
Vincent Van Gogh -
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
Vincent Van Gogh -
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
Vincent Van Gogh -
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
Vincent Van Gogh -
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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.
Vincent Van Gogh -
There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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?
Vincent Van Gogh