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Painting demands an intelligent model.
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 can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
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You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
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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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