Vincent Van Gogh Quotes - Page 4

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• Conscience is a man's compass.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Men, Compass

  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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• Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, True Love, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2259, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Wife, Trying, Serious

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Listening, Language

  Vincent van Gogh (1976). “My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo”, Blue Mountain Press

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• Art demands constant observation.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Demand, Observation

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• Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Broken, Passionate

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Practice, Drawing

  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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• I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Loneliness, Believe, Sadness

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• I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Want, Paint, Feels

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• At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Distance, Believe, Paris

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• How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Yellow, Lovely, Sun

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• Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Art, Nature

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

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• 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

  Brother, Caring, Magic

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.144, Parkstone International

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• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Artist, Prudent

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Coffee, Drink, Good Work

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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• We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sides

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1893, Delphi Classics

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• The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  People, Disease, Pessimism

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• In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Life Death, Difficult

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• To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Light

  Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.

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• In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Want, Had Enough, Harmony

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.35, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Deeds, Good Deeds

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.41, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Only when I fall do I get up again.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fall, Making Mistakes, Get Up

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fire, May, Quench

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Depth, Misery, Harmony

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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