About Vincent van Gogh

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of The Starry Night. (1853-1890)

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More from Vincent van Gogh

• The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.Letter (September 18, 1888)
• If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.Letter to Theo, Drenthe (October 1883)
• Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.Letter to Theo, no. 155 (June 1880)
• Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.Letter to Theo, The Hague (March 18, 1883)

More quotes on habits and discipline

• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.George Washington
• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt
• I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.Theodore Roosevelt
• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.Eleanor Roosevelt
• We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.John F. Kennedy
• Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.Dwight D. Eisenhower

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