Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
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Do not become the slave of your model.
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Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
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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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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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I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
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I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can 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.
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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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Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
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Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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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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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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Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
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I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.
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Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.
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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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I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.