"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone,……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
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Vincent Van Gogh
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346 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling,…
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I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express…
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels…
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet,…
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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