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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for realit...

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, e...

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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.

By Vincent Van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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Since visiting the abbatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

By Vincent Van Gogh
You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything

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There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

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One wants to be an honest man; one is so, one works hard; but still one cannot make both ends meet; on must give up the work, there is no chance of carrying it out without spending more on it than one gets back for it; one gets a feeling of shortcomi

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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.

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Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessi

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

By Vincent Van Gogh
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

By Vincent van Gogh
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

By Vincent Van Gogh
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.

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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.

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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.

By Vincent Van Gogh
I wish they would only take me as I am.

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I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors

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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 am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

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How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be

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