Vincent van Gogh Short Quotes

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Beautiful as you are, shining in your glory.

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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

Vincent van Gogh
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

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A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

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If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

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To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

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I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.'

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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is…for us humans.

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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.

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I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

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

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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

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Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

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And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

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Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

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It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

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Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

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I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

Vincent van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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