Vincent Van Gogh Quotes - Page 6

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• My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Care, Way, Paint

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• I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Order, Color, Arbitrary

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• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Distance

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• Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Alive, Irony

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• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Looks, May

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.126, Parkstone International

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• Drawing is the root of everything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Roots, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.3, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Winning, Love Is, One Love

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Time, Understanding, Masters

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

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• In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Drawing, Sketching

  Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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• We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Helping, Whole Life

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• If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Glasses, Storm, Too Much

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

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• I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Disappointment

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• 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

  Art, Men, Hands

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• Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful

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• It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Risk, Pearls

  1888 From a letter to his brother Theo, early Oct.

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• I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Jobs, Faults

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• When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Stars, Ignorance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, September 29, 1888. "An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment" by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259, 1991.

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• Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Artist, Fire

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

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• It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Greatness, Steel

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• I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Humanity, Able

  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 don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Art

  "Fictional character: Vincent Van Gogh". "Loving Vincent", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Thinking

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Education, Paint, Glad

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• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Debt

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• I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Want, Succeed, Helping

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1148, Delphi Classics

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