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Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.
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
Drawer
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Printmaker
Brooklyn
New York
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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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