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«Winning isn't everything...it's the only thing.»
«To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a living one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Belief,
Trust
| Keywords:
God is dead, irresistible, Irresistible Force, stuffed, urges
«Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
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«I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore-- excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint them.»
«If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
baby grand, coo, cooing, Coos, cradle, deeper, Deep ocean, go far, grand, shining, wakes
«There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Feelings,
Thinking
| Keywords:
calculation, considers, incomprehensible, reckless, thoughtless
«How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
canned food, food for thought, rich food, The Lonely One
«I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.»
«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.»
«But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Mistakes,
Nature,
Words,
Work
| Keywords:
decipher, deciphered, deciphering, echo, gap, shorthand, struck
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