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Great Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- The great artist is the simplifier.
- 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…
- 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…
- Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
- Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
- For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
- 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…
- I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I…
- That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great…
- 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…
- 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…
- Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will…
- There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a…
- Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
- It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through…
- If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments,…
- Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty.…
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