Vincent Van Gogh

Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic, and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspect of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

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I dream my painting, and 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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What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

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I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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I have had a very thin time of it these days. My money ran out on Thursday, and I have lived for four days on twenty-three cups of coffee.

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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill — it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

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Winning isn't everything.. It's the only thing.

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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

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