Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
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And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
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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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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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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
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Love is eternal – the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
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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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You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
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I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'
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To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
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I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
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It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.
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To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace
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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
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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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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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I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.