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1. "When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
2. "I know well that healing comes-if one is brave-from within, through profound resignation to suffering and death, through the surrender of your own will and of your self-love. But that is of no use to me; I love to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life-artificial, if you like. Yes, real life would be a different thing, but I do not belong to that category of souls who are ready to live and also at any moment to suffer. I am everything but courageous in sorrow, and everything but patient when I am not feeling well, though I have rather a good deal of patience in keeping to my work." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
3. "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
4. "Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the spell of 'you can't' once and for all." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
5. "Dear brother,I feel what Pa and Ma instinctively think about me (I don't say reasonably).There's a similar reluctance about taking me into the house as there would be about having a large, shaggy dog in the house. He'll come into the room with wet paws — and then, he's so shaggy. He'll get in everyone's way. And he barks so loudly.In short — it's a dirty animal.Very well — but the animal has a human history and, although it's a dog, a human soul, and one with finer feelings at that, able to feel what people think about him, which an ordinary dog can't do.And I, admitting that I am a sort of dog, accept them as they are.Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, Nuenen, 15 December 1883" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
6. "Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
7. "Baharda çilek yemek, evet, olur böyle seyler yasamda, ama yilin çok kisa bir bölümünde yalnizca ve su sira çok uzakta." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
8. "Je t'ai envoyé aujourd'hui mon portrait à moi; il faut le regarder pendant quelque temps, tu verras, j'espère que ma physionomie s'est bien calmée, quoique le regard soit vague davantage qu'auparavant, à ce qui me parait." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
9. "How I wish we could spend a couple of Christmas days together, for instance — I would also dearly like to have you in my studio once more.I, too, have been toiling quite hard recently, precisely because I was full of the Christmas feeling, and feeling isn't enough, one must bring it into one's work.So I'm now occupied with two large heads of an orphan man, with his white beard and old-fashioned, old top hat.This chap has the sort of old, lively face that one would wish for beside a cosy Christmas fire." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
10. "To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
11. "It is good to 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 well done." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
12. "A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
13. "It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
14. "Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
15. "I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
16. "What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
17. "I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
18. "At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
19. "Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk,? but no flowers grow on it." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
20. "It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
21. "Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
22. "One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
23. "There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
24. "We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
25. "One must work and dare if one really wants to live." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
26. "I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
27. "What is done in love is done well." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
28. "What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
29. "I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
30. "If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
31. "...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
32. "In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
33. "Quick work doesn't mean less serious work, it depends on one's self-confidence and experience. In the same way Jules Guérard, the lion hunter, says in his book that in the beginning young lions have a lot of trouble killing a horse or an ox, but that the old lions kill with a single blow of the paw or a well-placed bite, and that they are amazingly sure at the job... I must warn you that everyone will think that I work too fast. Don't you believe a word of it. Is it not emotion, the sincerity of one's feeling for nature, that draws us, and if the emotions are sometimes so strong that one works without knowing one works, when sometimes the strokes come with a continuity and coherence like words in a speech or a letter, then one must remember that it has not always been so, and that in time to come there will again be hard days, empty of inspiration. So one must strike while the iron is hot, and put the forged bars on one side." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
34. "Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
35. "Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
36. "What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
37. "The way to know life is to love many things." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
38. "Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
39. "I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made.." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
40. "I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
41. "How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
42. "If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
43. "I dream my painting and I paint my dream." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
44. "I have lost my soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process." ~Vincent van Gogh" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
45. "Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!" ~ Vincent Van Gogh
46. "If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
47. "Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
48. "Only when I fall do I get up again." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
49. "And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
50. "There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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