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Vincent Van Gogh
1853 – 1890 • Dutch • Painter
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Showing 41 quotesThose Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.— Vincent Van Gogh
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.— Vincent Van Gogh
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.— Vincent Van Gogh
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.— Vincent Van Gogh
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Faith
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.— Vincent Van Gogh
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Poetry
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.— Vincent Van Gogh
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.— Vincent Van Gogh
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.— Vincent Van Gogh
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.— Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.— Vincent Van Gogh
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Imagination
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.— Vincent Van Gogh
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?— Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.— Vincent Van Gogh