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• There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Morning

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Coffee, Diners, Form

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• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reflection, Reality, Mirrors

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

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• It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Suicide, Gay, Gay Life

  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.58, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Passion, Boredom, Dying

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• I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Anxiety, Feelings, Matter

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.30, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Couple, Men, Color

  Derek Fell, Vincent van Gogh (2001). “Van Gogh's Gardens”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Earth

  "Vincent Van Gogh".

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• Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Understanding, Neurosis, Someday

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sketchbooks, Witness, Happens

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• Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Causes, Favour, Trouble

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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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Trying, Way, Things To Do

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Eye, Men

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

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• One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Self, Voice, Ordinary

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• At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Easy

  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.88, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Blue, Yellow, Orange

  Leo Jansen, Vincent van Gogh, Émile Bernard, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker (2007). “Vincent Van Gogh: painted with words : the letters to Émile Bernard”, Rizzoli

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• I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Order, Painting

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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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Wall, Iron

  H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson

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• I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Desire, Popularity

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• I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Foundation, Copying

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• Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

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  Men, Forever, Energy

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Comforting, Want

  "The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin".

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• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Drawing, People

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

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• Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Fall, Knowledge

  Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). “Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh to Anton ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885”

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• Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Mysterious, Excitement

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.130, Parkstone International

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