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Famous Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

“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.”

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

“Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.”