Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it till at last, someday, one perhaps doesn't stand up any more, que soit, but that is nothing extraordinary, and I repeat, in my opinion, such is the commonVincent Van Gogh
It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless.
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I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
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A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go.
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