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

Source: Letter, Oct. 1888 (published in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, vol. 3, no. B19, 1958).
-- Vincent Van Gogh, (Mar 30 1853-1890), Dutch artist; He was a post-impressionist painter noted for his brilliant colors and swirling brush strokes, e.g., Sunflowers.

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