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Vincent van Gogh Quotes
«I'm able to get by very well in life, and also with my work, without beloved God. But I, a suffering human being, can not survive without there being something greater than myself, which for me is my whole life- the creative power...I want to paint m»
«In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Cynicism,
Living,
Skepticism
| Keywords:
cynicism, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, musically, skepticism
«When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Indeed life is a have to defend and protect ourselves, and with a cheerful and brace spirit we must battle; we plan and calculate in order to make progress.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
battle plan, brace, braced, braces, brace up, bracing, calculate, cheerful, in-fighting, inmost, more and more, Much Evil, righteous, work in progress
«I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time. the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
concerns, debt, difficulties, intend, in so far, Long Walk, shorter, spare, spare time, thirty, walked
«If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
disastrous, headlong, studies, stun, stunned, stunning
«How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
alteration, alterations, anomalies, anomaly, comes out, literal, So What, The Re
«The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.»
«Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to stay in the south and to experience the color which must be carried to the uttermost- it is not far to Africa.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
Africa, carried, in the south, not far, South, South Africa, the South, uttermost
«It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Day,
Faith,
Life
| Keywords:
as it were, bad faith, comforted, gospel, preach, sanctified, strengthened, Theo, worldly
«The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
an orange, colorist, colorists, France, in the south, orange, oranges, other than, painter, painters, South, sulphur, the South, To South, to the south, yellow