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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
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One of the reasons why I have no regular job, and why I have not had a regular job for years, is quite simply that my ideas differ from those of the gentlemen who hand out the jobs to individuals who think as they do. It is not just a question of my appearance, which is what they have sanctimoniously reproached me with. It goes deeper, I do assure you.
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What is Drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
Letter to his brother Theo
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Born:
March 30, 1853
Died:
July 29, 1890
(aged 37)
Bio:
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.
Known for:
The Starry Night (1889)
Irises (1889)
Café Terrace at Night (1888)
The Potato Eaters (1885)
The Yellow House (1888)
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