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Conscience is a man's compass.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh
Age: 37 †
Born: 1853
Born: March 30
Died: 1890
Died: July 29
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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.
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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.
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Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.
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That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
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I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.
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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.
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God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
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