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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 devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I… Ceaselessly
• Art demands constant observation. Art
• The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. Cypresses
• Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes. Few
• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity. Express
• If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a… Always Find
• Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. Ah
• I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even… Accidental
• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has… Been
• It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the… Aim
• What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in… Disagreeable
• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which… Advance
• There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe… All
• There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings. Cannot Explain
• The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter… Call
• It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels… Believe
• Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give… All
• Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for… Black
• There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't… Banalities
• I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the… Aim
• I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at… Become Something
• I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. Art
• Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark... Dark
• Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre… Addition
• The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one… Bed

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