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Paint Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
- It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
- 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…
- I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
- In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
- It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -…
- 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…
- 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…
- Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
- If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
- When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;…
- I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a…
- I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than…
- Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,…
- As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
- If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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