Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
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"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
Vincent van Gogh
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
Vincent van Gogh
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
Vincent van Gogh
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
Vincent van Gogh
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent van Gogh
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model."
Vincent van Gogh
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
Vincent van Gogh
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
Vincent van Gogh
"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."
Vincent van Gogh
"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
Vincent van Gogh
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent van Gogh
"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
Vincent van Gogh
"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
Vincent van Gogh
"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."
Vincent van Gogh
"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."
Vincent van Gogh
"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."
Vincent van Gogh
"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
Vincent van Gogh
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
Vincent van Gogh
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
Vincent van Gogh
"The way to know life is to love many things."
Vincent van Gogh
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