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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
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Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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How difficult it is to be simple.
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Normal people do not create art.
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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out."
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First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. We accept all of nature, without any repudiation. We believe there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris. We think pain is good because it is the most profound of all human feelings. We think sex is beautiful even when portrayed by a harlot and a pimp. We put character above ugliness, pai..
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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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There's no love without pain.
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Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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You cannot be the good all the time -- sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.
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You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.
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They say I imagine -- it is not true -- I remember.]
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Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us." --
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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
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After all, the world is still great.
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The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next ..
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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And suddenly Vincent clearly realised what his subconsciousness had known for a long time. All the talks about God are just childish elusion, just a lie that calms a scared and lonely ordinary mortal in a dark and neverending night. There is no God. Sure as fate - there is no God. There is only chaos - dismal, painful, cruel, agonizing, blind, endless chaos.
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An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
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A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.
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Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
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Who loves -- lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
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Artists thrive on suffering.
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.
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When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the life of a man as it flows past him, are all one and the same thing. The sole unity in life is the unity of rhythm. A rhythm to which we all dance; men, apples, ravines, ploughed fields, carts among the corn, houses, horses, and the sun. The stuff that is in you, Gauguin, will pound through a grape tomorrow, because you and the grape ..
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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