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Letter "V" » Vincent van Gogh Quotes
«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, duty, imposes, opinion, painting, public, public opinion
«Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
alas, easy, everywhere, looking, looking at, on paper, paper, poetry, putting, Putts, surrounds
«Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
derives, deriving, of their own, painter, paintings
«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»
«I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Adventure
| Keywords:
adventurer, adventurers, by choice, fate
«Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shed»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
aspect, Before and After, burning, essence, lamp, shed, unlighted
«It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
desolation, extreme, extreme poverty, indescribable, peculiar, rises, strikes, The Image, unutterable
«I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Art,
Painting
| Keywords:
consciously, painter, poor, The Dog
«There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Life,
Time
| Keywords:
banish, distinction, eccentric, eccentrics, longing, This is a, tired of
«It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Art,
Life,
Madness
| Keywords:
all right, artists, completely, crazy, ill, immerse, immersing, mentally ill, mildly, only too, outsider, outsiders, put right, put to work, remain, right to work
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