Vincent Van Gogh Quotes - Famous Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
Born: 1853-03-30
Died: 1890-07-29
Vincent Van Gogh Biography
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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I wish they would only take me as I am.
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
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If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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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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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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The best way to know God is to love many things.
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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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There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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