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Lithographer Inspirational Quotes (1785)

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The great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?
Vincent Van Gogh
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Vincent Van Gogh
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
Vincent Van Gogh
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My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I never get tired of the blue sky.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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
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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
Vincent Van Gogh
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How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
Vincent Van Gogh
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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
Vincent Van Gogh
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How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges they have been with us from the very beginning.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.
Vincent Van Gogh
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
Vincent Van Gogh
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
Vincent Van Gogh
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