Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
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Art demands constant observation.
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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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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.
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I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.
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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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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.
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Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman.
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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
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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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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
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Only when I fall do I get up again.
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The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs
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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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Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
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My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
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If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
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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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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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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.