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Famous Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
“I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.”
“Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.”
“I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.”
“I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.”
“One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.”
“I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.”
“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”
“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”
“Conscience is a man's compass.”
“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”
“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.”
“How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?”
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”