Vincent Van Gogh

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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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.
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 done well.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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.
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.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

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