Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.
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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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If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman.
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The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
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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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Only when I fall do I get up again.
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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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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
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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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Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.
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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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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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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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It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
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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 want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.
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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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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
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I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.