Vincent Van Gogh Quotes - Page 15

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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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• It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good-it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Memories, Real, Long

  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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• The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Canvas, Idiot, Staring

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Way, Bread

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.126, Parkstone International

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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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• 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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• 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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