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

—Vincent Van Gogh

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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.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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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.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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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.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist.

—Robert Schumann

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Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

—René Magritte

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

—Willem de Kooning

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

—Pierre Bonnard

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