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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up...
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture,...
Conscience is a man's compass.
Source: In
If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
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-- Vincent Van Gogh,...
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding...
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your...
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Source: In
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Source: Letter, 1890; published in The...
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke...
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Source: In...
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Source: In Quotable...
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the...