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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 worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

Vincent Van Gogh

Nature, People, Have Faith

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

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What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Distance, Air, Atmosphere

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1449, Delphi Classics

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Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!

Vincent Van Gogh

Moving, Artist, Anchors

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But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

Vincent Van Gogh

Ideas, Goal, Shapes

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

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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

Vincent Van Gogh

God, Loneliness, Mind

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

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One can never study nature too much and too hard

Vincent Van Gogh

Nature, Too Much, Study

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

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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking, Littles, Great Men

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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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

Vincent Van Gogh

Party, Opposites, Impressive

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I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent Van Gogh

Hands, Safety, Calm

Letter to Theo van Gogh, December 29, 1881.

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What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.

Vincent Van Gogh

Wall, Iron, Drawing

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The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

Vincent Van Gogh

Real, Taken, Mind

"The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating What You Want to Create". Book by Robert Fritz, p. 181, 1984.

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Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

Vincent Van Gogh

Perseverance, Giving, Public Opinion

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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.

Vincent Van Gogh

Fighting, Evil, Battle

Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

Vincent Van Gogh

Sound, Use, Littles

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You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.

Vincent Van Gogh

Brother, Powerful, Spring

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Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Giving Up, Mean

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

Vincent Van Gogh

Long, Problem, Life Is

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

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My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh

Truth, Lying, Reality

Rosemary Treble, Vincent van Gogh (1975). “Van Gogh and his art”

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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

Vincent Van Gogh

Dream, Groups, Pals

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Painting demands an intelligent model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Intelligent, Demand, Painting

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The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

Vincent Van Gogh

Eye, Yellow, Orange

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Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

Vincent Van Gogh

Fighting, Artist, Victory

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

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Order, Color

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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

Vincent Van Gogh

Easy, Paint, Difficult

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