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What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

Vincent Van Gogh

Loneliness, Feelings, Mind

Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

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If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.

Vincent Van Gogh

Wise, Art, Intelligent

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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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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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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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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I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Powerful, Men

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

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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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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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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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One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

Vincent Van Gogh

Succeed, Spoil

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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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...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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The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

Vincent Van Gogh

Beautiful, Color, Law

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

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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

Artist, Suffering, Atheism

"The Drawings of Van Gogh".

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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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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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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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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 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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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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It is good to love many things

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Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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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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Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

Vincent Van Gogh

People, Comfort, Needs

Vincent Van Gogh (2003). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.437, Penguin UK

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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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I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

Vincent Van Gogh

Sunflower, Enthusiasm, Painting

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