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From out of pain, beauty.
There's no love without pain.
Normal people do not create art.
How difficult it is to be simple.
Religion will never show the way.
God did not create us to abandon us.
After all, the world is still great.
What we know of others is our personal secret.
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.
Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]
You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.