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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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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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Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
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Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!
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I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
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It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
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I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.
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The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
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But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
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For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.
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Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
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The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
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Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
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I wish they would take me as I am.
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