Creative Quotations from Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Vincent Van Gogh
(1853-1890) born on Mar 30

Dutch artist. He was a post-impressionist painter noted for his brilliant colors and swirling brush strokes, e.g., "Sunflowers."

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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.

Conscience is a man's compass.

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, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
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R:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
A:	Letter, Oct. 1888 (published in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, vol. 3, no. B19, 1958).
N:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
K:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.