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It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

Vincent Van Gogh

Brain, Legs, Arms

Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.29, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Vincent Van Gogh

Wall, Believe, Heart

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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking, Soul, Portraiture

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2878, Delphi Classics

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One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

Vincent Van Gogh

Succeed, Spoil

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If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking, Study, Possibility

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

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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

Vincent Van Gogh

Believe, And Love, Needs

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The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Vincent Van Gogh

Trying, Ugly, Ill

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How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

Vincent Van Gogh

Flower, Ivy, Greenery

Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.73, Parkstone International

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The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Sky, Lamps

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Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

Vincent Van Gogh

Reality, Meditation, Tears

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The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Vincent Van Gogh

Effort, Victory, Gains

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

Vincent Van Gogh

Dream, Stars, Future

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

Vincent Van Gogh

Air, Paris, Brain

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.53, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Vincent Van Gogh

Intelligent, Men, Missing

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For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, Trying, Arbitrary

"The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh".

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And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Vincent Van Gogh

Men, Looks, Way

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Vincent Van Gogh

Heart, Fighting, Order

Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

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I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

Vincent Van Gogh

Nature, Yellow, Pieces

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

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What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

Vincent Van Gogh

Mind, Use, Way

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

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I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Vincent Van Gogh

Men, Two, Color

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I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Vincent Van Gogh

Men, Giving, Halos

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

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting, Importance, Painter

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

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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Vincent Van Gogh

And Love, Teach, Painter

Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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I will not live without love.

Vincent Van Gogh

Love, Without Love

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

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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

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