Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.
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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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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
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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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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 feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
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I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.
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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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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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The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
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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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Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.
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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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The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
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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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One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.