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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.
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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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.
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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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Only when I fall do I get up again.
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