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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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• Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. Calm
• A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved Funny
• There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman. Brilliantly
• Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. Earth
• For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. Alone
• To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones... Color
• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and… All
• I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several… Assure
• One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. Arranging
• As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it. Color
• I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me… Believe
• Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature,… All
• You have first to experience what you want to express. Experience
• Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread. Artist
• Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. Blank
• My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life...… Aim
• I have walked the earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir. Earth
• Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. All
• There is nothing more artistic than loving people. Artistic
• Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues. Artist
• I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone. Gone
• In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first… Artist
• So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. Each
• I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or… Anxiety
• The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but… Accidental

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