By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven’t yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it.
Vincent van Gogh
By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven’t yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it.
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
I wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent van Gogh - Madame Roulin and Her Baby, 1888. Oil on canvas
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Vincent van Gogh - The Flowering Orchard, 1888. Oil on canvas
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh - A Corner of the Garden of St Paul’s Hospital at St Rémy, 1889. Pencil, pen and ink on paper
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Vincent van Gogh - Road to Etten, 1881. Chalk, pencil, pastel, watercolor. Underdrawing in pen and brown ink.
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Perhaps death is not the hardest thing in a painter’s life… looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn’t the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star…
Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night, 1889. Oil on canvas.