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Vincent Van Gogh
It is not...
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the...
Paintings have a...
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Source: In...
What would life...
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Source: In Quotable...
A good picture...
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Source: Letter, 1890; published in The...
One may have...
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...
I am not...
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Source: Letter, summer 1886...
I dream of...
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Source: In
Do not quench...
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your...
Great things are...
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
If one hasn't...
If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
Source:
-- Vincent Van Gogh,...
If one is...
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding...
Conscience is a...
Conscience is a man's compass.
Source: In
I can't work...
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,...
Even the knowledge...
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up...
Painting is a...
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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