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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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• I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture,… Afraid
• I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in… Bones
• Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is… Atmosphere
• Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study… Bad
• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,… Azure
• I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like… Abominable
• I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It… All
• To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one… Artist
• It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed… Advance
• Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat. Eating
• 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… Belief
• I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance. Beautiful
• Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere. Difficulty
• There is no such thing as an ugly woman. Inspirational
• Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you Become Clearer
• But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to… All
• The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want… Absolutely
• Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is… Alone
• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is… Cease
• I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime. Christianity
• What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. All
• 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
• In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. Artist
• Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. Accidental
• You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and… Choose

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