It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill.
VINCENT VAN GOGHDrawing is the root of everything.
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A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.
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I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
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If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
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I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
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What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
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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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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
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Art demands constant observation.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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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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