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.

Vincent Van Gogh

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Vincent Van Gogh

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If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

Vincent Van Gogh

real disappointment life

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Great things do not just happen by impulse,

Vincent Van Gogh

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Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

Vincent Van Gogh

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

stars knows dream

If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Vincent Van Gogh

art-is broken art

I never get tired of the blue sky.

Vincent Van Gogh

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In spite of everything, I shall rise again

Vincent Van Gogh

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All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

Vincent Van Gogh

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What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

eye heart people

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

beautiful life art

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Vincent Van Gogh

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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Vincent Van Gogh

caring trying people

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

Vincent Van Gogh

little-things steps littles

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent Van Gogh

soul mind art

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Vincent Van Gogh

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