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“Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.”

Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work is renowned for its vivid colors and emotional intensity. His paintings, such as 'The Starry Night' and 'Sunflowers', are iconic and have left a significant mark in the history of art. more

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“A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.”

Should Painting Deeds Good Deeds Impressive

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.”

People Needs Heart Artist Church Poor Alive Example Winter Warm Noble Ministers Impressive Graphic Collectors Warm Heart

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.”

Ifs I Can Pleasure Absolutes Melancholy Drag Impressive

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.”

Ifs Trying Lost Study Needed Woe Impressive

Book:Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]

Source: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]

“But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.”

Firsts Ideas Goal Painting Shapes Ultimate Deeper Passing Passings Firm Vague Impressive Ultimate Goal Dig Deep Fugitive Vague Ideas

Book:Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]

Source: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]

“You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.”

Knows Powerful Serious Brother Spring Remains Prison Disappear Most Powerful Attachment Spells Sovereign Impressive Very Deep

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.”

Party Opposites Impressive Heresy Diabolical

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!”

Dies Passion Dying Sake Boredom Impressive

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the”

Ifs Succeed And Love Warmth Impressive Carrying On Warmth And Love

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.”

Voice Honest Indignation Voice Of God

Book:The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color