Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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Beautiful Disappointment Inspirational Perseverance Requirement
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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Art Broken Console Life Painting
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Complain Learning Lesson Life Suffering
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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Civilization Disease Labor Melancholy
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
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Aspect Change Essence Eternal Love
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Done Greatness Impulse Series Team Work Togetherness Work
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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Complex Eyes Look Magic Nature Travel
The great artist is the simplifier.
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Artist Greatness Minimalism One Liner Simplicity
Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
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Beautiful Finding Positive
Art demands constant observation.
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Art Constant Demand Observation One Liner
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
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Dedication Heart Inspirational Seek Strive Work Hard
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
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Colour Painting Team Work Togetherness
One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning.
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Burn Fire Motivational Soul
It is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
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Deep Flower Garden Growth Inspirational Necessary Work
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
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Dedication Heart Inspirational Lost Painting Process Soul Work
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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Art Love One Liner People True
In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
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Artist Death Difficult Life Perhaps
I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Dedication Heart Inspirational Lost Painting Process Soul Work
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Art Love One Liner People True
In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Artist Death Difficult Life Perhaps
The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
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Alive Painting Time
If you end up falling in love with someone, it’s because of them. If you end up hating someone, it’s because of you.
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Break Up Couple Fall In Love Hate Love Relationship
I wish they would take me as I am.
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Be Yourself Expectation Self Respect
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.
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Art Feeling Painting People Tender Touch Want
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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Failure Inspirational Outcome String Success
Conscience is a man’s compass.
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Compass Conscience Man One Liner
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
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Darkness Hard Light Painting

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