Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
VINCENT VAN GOGHBoth she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
More Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
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It is good to 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 well done.
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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
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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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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.
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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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What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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You have first to experience what you want to express.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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Drawing is the root of everything.
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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
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Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
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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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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
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Conscience is a man’s compass.
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No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
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The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
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I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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