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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 the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself. Drunkenness
• It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. Chance
• I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to… Actual
• If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up… Disastrous
• I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long… Absurdities
• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be… Accurate
• a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. Fearing
• To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but… Actually Exists
• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. Drawing
• I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by… Bedroom
• To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be… Beautiful
• When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… Color
• My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like… Become Yes
• I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours. Colour
• Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis. Everyone
• There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a… Among
• I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada. Cicada
• Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. Busily
• I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting. Ceaselessly
• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. All
• Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love… Accomplish
• As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Advance
• I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. Faith
• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Any
• I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Art

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