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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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I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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One can never study nature too much and too hard
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As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now and I don't regret it.
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Someday death will take us to another star.
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My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.
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I will not live without love.
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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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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.
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Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.
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I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
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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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... life is too short to do the whole.
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Art demands constant observation.
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I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.
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In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.
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I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.
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