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To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking, Drawing, Sticks

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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Dream, Stars, Sight

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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Sublime, Sacred

Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Vincent Van Gogh

Aries, Selfless Service, Self Discovery

Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh

Evil, Mind, Trying

Vincent van Gogh (1976). “My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo”, Blue Mountain Press

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Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love Is, Eternal

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1895, Delphi Classics

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But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

Vincent Van Gogh

Profound, Sublime, Trying

Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

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In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

Vincent Van Gogh

Heart, Artist, Order

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

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Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

Vincent Van Gogh

Canvas, Blank, Staring

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By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

Vincent Van Gogh

Fighting, Men, One Day

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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent Van Gogh

Beautiful, Art, Autumn

Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Vincent Van Gogh

Beautiful, Death, Summer

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I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Taken, Choices, Madness

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

Vincent Van Gogh

Men, People, Want

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Vincent Van Gogh

Regret, Passion, Men

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I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.

Vincent Van Gogh

Eye, White, Boards

Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, Two, Vibrations

Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.74, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Beautiful, Dream, Scary

Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Inspirational, Dream, Stars

Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Vincent Van Gogh

Heart, Wish, Difficult

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

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If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Vincent Van Gogh

Horse, Ifs

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2150, Delphi Classics

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I'll start with small things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Small Things

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Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.

Vincent Van Gogh

Book, Artist, Men

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For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

Together, Littles, Little Things

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Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

Vincent Van Gogh

Black And White, Color, Green

Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.173, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Born: March 30, 1853
Died: July 29, 1890
Occupation: Painter
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