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[Wikipedia] Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include l

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• If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? Ambition
• Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. Any
• An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. Art
• 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
• 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… Art
• 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… Both
• At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;… Absolutely
• I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. Art
• It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is… Admire
• I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a… Bookshop
• ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Art
• Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is… Aspect
• It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide. Better
• The sunflower is mine, in a way. Inspirational
• In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. Cynicism
• It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. Deeper
• But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. Flower
• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. Alive
• Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. Essential
• Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. Courage
• Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,… Afraid
• Only when I fall do I get up again. Fall
• I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. All
• If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. Beauty
• 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… Aware

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