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.
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Vincent van GoghLetter to Theo, no. 155 (June 1880)
About Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of The Starry Night. (1853-1890)
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- Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.Letter to Theo, The Hague (October 22, 1882)
- 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)
- 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)
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