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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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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Brooklyn
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What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.
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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.
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I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor I shall be a painter.
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The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.
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The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.
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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
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I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
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Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!
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I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.
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I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
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Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.
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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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If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.
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Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
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