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Vincent Van Gogh


Dutch
March 30, 1853
Artist
ramsau hintersee alpine nature
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.


Vincent Van Gogh
ramsau hintersee alpine nature
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.


Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Work Really Live
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I wish they would only take me as I am.


Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Me Would Only
ramsau hintersee alpine nature
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.


Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Life Own Soul
pirate ship dark night storm
The best way to know God is to love many things.


Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Best God Know
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.


Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Think More Than
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.


Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Poetry Us Looking
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.


Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: God Want Being
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.


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Tags: About Think More
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Know Never Reason
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Knowledge Me Get
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: Great Up Will
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
Tags: God Power Life