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To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh
Age: 37 †
Born: 1853
Born: March 30
Died: 1890
Died: July 29
Botanical Illustrator
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Brooklyn
New York
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Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.
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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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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
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Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
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Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
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Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
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Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.
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