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“There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.”

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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“The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi”

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Book:Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

“What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.”

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“Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.”

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Book:Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Source: Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.”

Ifs Writing Wells Blue Colour Yellow Orange Oh Well Banality

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.”

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Book:The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

“I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.”

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Source: Van Gogh's

“I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh