Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
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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 want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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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 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 am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
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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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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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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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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 a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
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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 more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
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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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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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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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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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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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I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.