One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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About Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His sui…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Vincent Van GoghI put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
The way to know life is to love many things.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.