Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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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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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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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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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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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 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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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
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The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
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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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How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.
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Art demands constant observation.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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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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So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers – by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
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To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
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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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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.