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I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
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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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: βHe is the one.β But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.
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I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
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Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
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No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.
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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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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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...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
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For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
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Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.
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It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
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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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The great artist is the simplifier.
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What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?
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