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Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch
Artist
Born:
Mar 30
,
1853
Died:
Jul 29
,
1890
God
Good
Life
Love
Me
Nature
Related authors:
Christien Meindertsma
Florentijn Hofman
M. C. Escher
Piet Mondrian
Saskia de Brauw
Theo Jansen
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
Great
Together
Small Things
Great Things
Brought
Small
Done
Series
Things
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
You
Will
Say
Silenced
Voice
Within
Hear
Cannot
Then
Means
Paint
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh
Day
Think
Alive
More
Colored
Than
Often
Night
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
Nature
Me
Nothing
Stars
Sight
Dream
Part
Know
Makes
Any
Certainty
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh
Dangerous
Fishermen
Dangers
Remaining
Never
Know
Terrible
Storm
Ashore
Sea
Reason
Found
Sufficient
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van Gogh
God
Faith
Shall
Am
Still
Being
Want
Succeed
Far
Help
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.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love
Strength
Love Is
Lies
True
Performs
Well
True Strength
Accomplish
Done
Loves
Much
Many
Therein
Whosoever
Things
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.
Vincent Van Gogh
Great
Will
Everything
Pencil
Drawing
Rise
Shall
Spite
Take
Go
Discouragement
Up
Which
Again
Forsaken
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
Great
Fire
Our
See
Only
No-One
Himself
Smoke
Passers-By
Hearts
May
Warm
Ever
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
Religion
Word
Stars
Say
Out
Shall
Terrible
Go
Then
Paint
Need
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
Strength
Heart
Fighting
Difficult
Difficulties
More
More And More
Developed
Advance
Becomes
Inmost
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van Gogh
Without
Yellow
Orange
Blue
The way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
Love
Way
Know
To Love
Many
Things
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh
Better
Mistakes
Too
Though
More
Makes
Narrow-Minded
Than
Prudent
Even
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh
Work
Live
Dare
Must
Wants
Really
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh
Me
Knowledge
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Fall
Own
My Own
Only
Making
Up
Get
Cannot
Again
Even
Keep
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh
Soul
Sit
Way
See
Only
No-One
Blazing
Smoke
Passers-By
Came
Continue
Hearth
May
Chimney
Ever
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
Soul
Own
Derives
Painter
Paintings
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.
Vincent Van Gogh
Time
Master
Understanding
One Thing
Insight
Well
Understands
Same
Same Time
Many
Thing
Things
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love
Good
Energy
Difficulties
Side
Gives
True
Always
Love Always
Brings
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.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
God
Suffering
My Life
Power
Painting
Something
Both
Well
Greater
Without
Am
Very
Than
Cannot
Which
Create
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh
Good
Picture
Good Picture
Equivalent
Deed
Good Deed
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh
Looking
Everywhere
Paper
Easy
Poetry
Putting
Surrounds
Us
Alas
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love
God
Best
Think
Way
Best Way
Know
Always
To Love
Many
Things
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.
Vincent Van Gogh
Nature
Reality
Language
Feeling
Important
More
Pictures
Than
Listen
Which
Themselves
Should
Painters
Things
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love
God
Best
Way
Best Way
Know
To Love
Many
Things
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