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Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head Picture Quote #1

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed Picture Quote #1

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more Picture Quote #1

For myself, I declare I don’t know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream Picture Quote #1

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals Picture Quote #1

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely Picture Quote #1

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I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn’t dare to take things in hand? Picture Quote #1

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn’t alter the fact that I’m bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again! Picture Quote #1

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can’t go Picture Quote #1

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can’t really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that’s to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can’t get on with the work Picture Quote #1

Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one’s work Picture Quote #1

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people Picture Quote #1

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If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger Picture Quote #1

I consciously choose the dog’s path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter Picture Quote #1

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil Picture Quote #1

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf Picture Quote #1

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose Picture Quote #1

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives Picture Quote #1

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I can’t work without a model. I won’t say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed Picture Quote #1

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people’s opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward Picture Quote #1

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily Picture Quote #1

Art, although produced by man’s hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul... My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul Picture Quote #1

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Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It’s false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well Picture Quote #1

To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky Picture Quote #1

I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character... I always think photographs abominable, and I don’t like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love... photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love or respect for the human being that is portrayed Picture Quote #1

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist’s work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work Picture Quote #1

You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn’t have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again Picture Quote #1

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people Picture Quote #1

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I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) For myself, I declare I don’t know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn’t dare to take things in hand? (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn’t alter the fact that I’m bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again! (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can’t go (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can’t really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that’s to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can’t get on with the work (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one’s work (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) I consciously choose the dog’s path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) I can’t work without a model. I won’t say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) 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 (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people’s opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) Art, although produced by man’s hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul... My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It’s false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character... I always think photographs abominable, and I don’t like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love... photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love or respect for the human being that is portrayed (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist’s work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn’t have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes) The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people (Vincent Van Gogh Quotes)

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