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Vincent Van Gogh quotes

Dutch Artist March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890

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Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't'... Vincent Van Gogh
Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as..."
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets? neither of us have any. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. Vincent Van Gogh
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings? not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm..."
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "Great things are done by a series of small things brought..."
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in..."
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. Vincent Van Gogh
There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the..."
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. Vincent Van Gogh
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little..."
I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -..."
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh quote: "Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard..."
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. Vincent Van Gogh

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