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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
Botanical Illustrator
Draftsperson
Drawer
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Printmaker
Brooklyn
New York
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Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.
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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.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.
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If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
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The wheat field has ...poetry it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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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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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.
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I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
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