Vincent van Gogh Quotes

• I cannot help it that my paintings do not sell. The time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

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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.

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• I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful. I am not conscious of myself any more, and the pictures come to me as if in a dream.

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• Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

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• Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

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• There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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• It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

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• What is done in love, is well done.

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• Only when I fall do I get up again.

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• I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

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• I dream my paintings, then i paint my dream.

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• Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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• For my part i know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

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• The way to know life is to love many things.

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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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• 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.

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• In my painting of the ‘All -Night Cafe’ I’ve tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal. Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis XV and Veronese gr.

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• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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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.

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Vincent van Gogh (71)

Birth:	30th March, 1853
Death:	29th July, 1890
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Painter

About

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

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