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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
New York
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I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
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Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
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People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
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The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
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Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
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To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.
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I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.
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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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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 lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
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I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
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I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
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If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
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It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
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Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.
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Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
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It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.
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