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... life is too short to do the whole.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh
Age: 37 †
Born: 1853
Born: March 30
Died: 1890
Died: July 29
Botanical Illustrator
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Drawer
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Lithographer
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Printmaker
Brooklyn
New York
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
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Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
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But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.
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Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.
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I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.
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I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.
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Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
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When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
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One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in 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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I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
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