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Vincent Van Gogh

A Dutch by birth, Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who was seldom noticed when alive but his reputation grew post his death. He was a queer man by personality as he was a patient of anxiety and mental illness. He suffered a lot during his life and died at a tender age of 37 probably from a self inflicted wound. In his entire career as a painter, he is known to ... Vincent Van Gogh biography

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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts: and its nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go. Even though neither you nor I would arrive at any definite plans, etc, by talking together perhaps we could mutually strengthen the feeling that something is ripening within us. And that is what I should like... (Vincent Van Gogh)

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An artist neednt be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it; till at last, someday, one perhaps doesn't stand up any more, que soit, but that is nothing extraordinary, and I repeat, in my opinion, such is the common human fate. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is now wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a mans soul. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gaps, but there is something in it of what wood or beech or figure has told me, and it is not a tame or conventional language, that proceeds not from nature itself but from a studied manner or a system. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I havent yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . . (Vincent Van Gogh)

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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. (Vincent Van Gogh)

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