I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work. β¨ Vincent van Gogh (1958). Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
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- I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. β¨ Vincent van Gogh (2014). Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated), p.2616, Delphi Classics
- The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. β¨ Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By. Book by Mary Engelbreit, 1999.
- 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. β¨ Vincent β¦ βΆ
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