Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
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Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.
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Only when I fall do I get up again.
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I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.
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Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
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If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.
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The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
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I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.
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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
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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 we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.
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In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
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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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Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.
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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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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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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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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.