The great artist is the simplifier.
VINCENT VAN GOGHThough I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
More Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I wish they would take me as I am.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.
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If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
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The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
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No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
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What is done in love is done well.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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The only thing to do is to go one’s own way, to try one’s best, to make the thing live.
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I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
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Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
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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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The sadness will last forever.
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There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.
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There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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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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