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You have first to experience what you want to express.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh
Age: 37 †
Born: 1853
Born: March 30
Died: 1890
Died: July 29
Botanical Illustrator
Draftsperson
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Brooklyn
New York
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What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
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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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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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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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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
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Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.
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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
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Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.
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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
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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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Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
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Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
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Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
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