A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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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Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning.
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In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
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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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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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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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In spite of everything, I shall rise again.
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If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends.
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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 am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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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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Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
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