Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Painter

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter known for his vivid colors and emotional depth, exemplified in works like 'The Starry Night'.

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Born
March 30, 1853
Died
July 29, 1890
Quotes
417
Rank
#279

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"At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know."

Distance Believe Paris
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"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 the value of the paints used in the picture."

People Facts Painting
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"If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the"

And Love Carrying On Succeed
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"Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul."

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"Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people."

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"So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light."

Light Forever Path
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"It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph."

Jobs Different Opinion
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"There is no such thing as an ugly woman."

Funny Women Ugly
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"Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred."

Art Sublime Sacred
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"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see."

Beautiful Art Autumn
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"I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot."

Loneliness Believe Sadness
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"It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good-it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way."

Memories Real Long
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it."

Sad Lonely Loneliness
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"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."

Artist Drawing Sketching
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"You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream."

Dream Stars Sky
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"One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning."

Fire Soul Burning
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"Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together."

Together Impulse Great Things
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"Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained."

Life Night Giving
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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."

Artist Paper Easy
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