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• Drawing is the root of everything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Roots, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.3, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Distance

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• Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Wind, Encounters

  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.49, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Book, Artist

  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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• It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Risk, Pearls

  1888 From a letter to his brother Theo, early Oct.

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• I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".

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• Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Night, Giving

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• When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Stars, Ignorance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, September 29, 1888. "An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment" by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259, 1991.

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• I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

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  Adventure, Fate, Destiny

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics

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• No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Winning, Love Is, One Love

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

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• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Strong, Knowing

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• Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Music, Art, Calm

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

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• I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

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  Order, Color, Arbitrary

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• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

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  Gratitude, Years, Debt

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• It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

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  Art, Interesting, Important

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

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  World, Bookstores, Good Things

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• Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Broken, Passionate, Canvas

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• Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Grief, Trouble

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2332, Delphi Classics

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• Yellow is capable of charming God.

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  Color, Yellow, Charming

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• I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

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  God, Thinking, Knowing

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

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• I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Corners, Poorest

  "Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters".

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• The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

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• I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

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  Gone, Half, Reason

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• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

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  Passion, Humanity, Green

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