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Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
- 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.
- 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.
- I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
- I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
- If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
- If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
- If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- 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.
- It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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