Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

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I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

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It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

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There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

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I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless.

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If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means painta and that voice will be silenced.

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When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Indeed life is a have to defend and protect ourselves, and with a cheerful and brace spirit we must battle we plan and calculate in order to make progress.

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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

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I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor I shall be a painter...

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'I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.'

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I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore-- excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint them.

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You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.

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My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

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If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go.

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I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

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The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

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How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be

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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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The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colors more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

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By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

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