Vincent Van Gogh Quotes - Page 15

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• The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Perfection, Smoking

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Form, Masters, Colour

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• An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Winter, Artist

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• There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Feelings, Painting, Intimacy

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• I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Work, Sunshine, Cicadas

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.27, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Time, Ambition

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• If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Voice, Silence

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• I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Truth, Hell, Truthfulness

  Bernard Zurcher, Vincent van Gogh (1995). “Vincent Van Gogh: art, life, and letters”, Thunder Bay Pr

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• Art is but imitation of nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Imitation, Art Is

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• It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gains, Youth, Pity

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2593, Delphi Classics

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• Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ideas, Painting, Abundance

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• To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Reality

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

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• Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Long Walks, Expression, Tree

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• Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Color, Promise

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2871, Delphi Classics

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• It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Ideas, Trying

  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.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Tired, Thinking

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• For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

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  Melancholy, Pleasure, Drag

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• I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Memories, Thinking, Glasses

  Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”

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• As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

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  Regret, Color, Don't Regret

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• I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Return, Energy

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

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• I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Want, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Douglas Cooper (1938). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Education, Chance, Teach

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• Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wine, Color, Atmosphere

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2552, Delphi Classics

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• It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.

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  Jobs, Different, Opinion

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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• Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. 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; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

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  Art, Powerful, Mean

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

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