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“I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

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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“When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.”

Fighting Evil Difficult Battle Tasks Direct Good Things Rewards Strive Righteous Impressive Braces Difficult Tasks

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!”

Ifs Facts Fall My Own Mistake Awareness Bounds Get Up Great Men Impressive Fallibility

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

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

“And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.”

Soul Machines Painter Portraits Impressive

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.”

Giving Pay Opinion Painting Duty Perseverance Conquer Public Opinion Impressive Heed Giving In

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.”

Heart Fighting Difficulty Oneself Inner Strength 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]

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

Causes Trouble Favour Impressive Love Always

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“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]