Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

30-Mar-1853


Netherlands


Painter

Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist pain artist whose work - notable for its beauty, feel and color - is the most powerful art of the 20th century. He battled a mental illness and remained poor and almost unknown for the rest of his life.

QUOTES BY Vincent Van Gogh


"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"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."

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

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

"I dream my painting and then paint my dream."

"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

"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."

"But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things."

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