Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

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• I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
• I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
• The great artist is the simplifier.
• It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
• I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent…
• I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
• Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
• Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.
• The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
• What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
• The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's…
• Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our…
• I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.
• One can never study nature too much and too hard
• It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an…
• The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
• It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
• In a painting I want to say something comforting.
• How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that…
• Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up…

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