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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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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
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There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
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People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
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Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
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There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.
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Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.
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Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
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Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
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