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I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.
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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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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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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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
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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.
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.
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