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I wish they would only take me as I am.
— Vincent Van Gogh
To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace
— Vincent Van Gogh
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
— Vincent Van Gogh
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
— Vincent Van Gogh
My soul is like my worn-out Van Gogh t-shirt; threadbare and full of holes
— J. Matthew Nespoli
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Every man must bear his own burden.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing is the root of everything!
— Vincent Van Gogh
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
— Billy Childish
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
— Vincent Van Gogh
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent Van Gogh
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I chose Van Gogh.
— Cheryl Strayed
Someday death will take us to another star.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the
— Vincent Van Gogh
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I will not live without love.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
— Vincent Van Gogh
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
— Billy Wilder
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
— Vincent Van Gogh
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
— 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.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter ...
— Vincent Van Gogh
Be of good heart.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If cupcakes were art; Kate's would be Van Gogh's
— C.T. Mitchell
I feel that there's nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Conscience is a man's compass.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.
— Tupac Shakur
Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.
— Vincent Van Gogh
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. - Vincent Van Gogh
— Laurie A. Helgoe
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
One must seize the reality of one's fate and that's that.
— Vincent Van Gogh
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Everything is but a dream!
— Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
— Juliet Stevenson
It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture ... like Van Gogh ... so who's to say what's good and bad?
— Frank Gehry
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one's work.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
— Vincent Van Gogh
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
— Vincent Van Gogh
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.
— Theo Van Gogh
I have Van Gogh's ear for music
— Stephen Fry
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
— Theo Van Gogh
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
— Vincent Van Gogh
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
— Bill Griffith
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
— Billy Childish
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am a traveler," he wrote, "going somewhere and to some destination...only the somewhere and the destination do not exist
— Steven Naifeh
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world
— Vincent Van Gogh
No wonder Van Gogh cut his ear off, I thought; there's nothing else to do in a place like this but cut your ear off.
— Philip Kerr
Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.
— Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The great artist is the simplifier.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..
— Vincent Van Gogh
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
— Jerry Saltz
The sight of stars makes me dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke that nearly removed her head from her spine.
— Erik Larson
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
— David Hockney
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.
— Theo Van Gogh
