Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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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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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
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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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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
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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.
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The sunflower is mine, in a way.
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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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The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
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I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
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Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
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Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.
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I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
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One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.