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“The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.”

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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“What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.”

Air Figures Distance Breathe Atmosphere Splendid

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

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

“Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.”

Doe Artist Fighting Victory Contrary Resistance Stimulus Resisting Stride

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Source: Van Gogh's

“There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.”

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

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

“In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.”

Men Doe Artist Pay Attention He Man

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

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

“I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.”

Needs Believe I Believe Rich Duty Aspect And Love Paint Magnificent Hope And Love Gaiety

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.”

Speak Memories Fields Wheat Wheat Fields

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.”

Bigs Painting Enthusiasm Sunflower

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.”

Form Young Black White Summer Spring Green Winter Snow Golden Autumn Contrast Violet Corn Hue Bronze

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.”

Kind Suffering Alive Paid Trade Profit Painter High Prices

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.”

War Choices Sides Party Cry Practicals Labels Plutocracy War Cry

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