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I can not draw sheep and cows if I do not understand their lives.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

I wish they would only take me as I am. — 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

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

Think of my rants and posts as they would come from Edgar, Vincent, and Dali. — Solange Nicole

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

Wherever at least two art lovers meet, Vincent Van Gogh's name is holy. — Irving Stone

I chose Van Gogh. — Cheryl Strayed

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman. — Vincent Van Gogh

Someday death will take us to another star. — Vincent Van Gogh

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. — 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

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will. — 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

I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada. — Vincent Van Gogh

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human. — 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

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere. — Vincent Van Gogh

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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. — 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

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

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat. — 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

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. — Vincent Van Gogh

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance. — Vincent Van Gogh

Everything is but a dream! — Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger

Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread. — Vincent Van Gogh

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved — Vincent Van Gogh

One must seize the reality of one's fate and that's that. — Vincent Van Gogh

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain. — Billy Cannon

It is good to love many things — Vincent Van Gogh

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it. — Deborah Heiligman

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully. — Vincent Van Gogh

Loneliness is a kind of prison.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

You cannot be the good all the time - sometimes it is necessary to get angry.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving. — Vincent Van Gogh

We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone. — Vincent Van Gogh

It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. — Vincent Van Gogh

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh

If cupcakes were art; Kate's would be Van Gogh's — C.T. Mitchell

If Delacroix discovered painting when he had neither teeth nor health, I can discover it when I have neither teeth nor the mind.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Life is too short to do the whole. — Vincent Van Gogh

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely. — Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh was impulsive. — Joni Mitchell

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun. — Vincent Van Gogh

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire. — 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

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of. — Ellen Forney

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

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life — Vincent Van Gogh

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that. — Theo Van Gogh

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — 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

I have Van Gogh's ear for music — Stephen Fry

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes. — 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

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — 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

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

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

When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a man. — Adam Gopnik

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

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

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

Be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life. — Vincent Van Gogh

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. — Vincent Van Gogh