Vincent Van Gogh Quotes - Page 17

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• It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Giving, May

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Thinking, Looks

  H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson

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• The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Yellow, Long, Mad

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2000, Delphi Classics

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• It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Painting, These Days

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1662, Delphi Classics

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• Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Insecurity, Canvas, Blank

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Different, Photographer, Realism

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2765, Delphi Classics

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• That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Way, Study, Academic

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• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Children, Rain, Snow

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• 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

  Years, Drawing, Done

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• We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Memories, Rain, Bad Day

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2997, Delphi Classics

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• A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Deeds, Painting, Should

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• I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Intelligent, Demand, Painting

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• Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Criticism, Done

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.3007, Delphi Classics

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• We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Judging, World, Study

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• There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Writing, Blue, Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2736, Delphi Classics

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• Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wine, Yellow, Black

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• If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Struggle, Emotional

  "The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886".

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