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"I shot myself ... I only hope I haven't botched it." Vincent van Gogh Quotes  
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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter than is often considered one of the greatist artists in the history of the world. These are some of his famous quotes.

	A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
	Conscience is a man's compass.
	Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
	Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
	Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
	How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
	I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
	I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
	I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
	I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
	I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
	I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
	I wish they would only take me as I am.
	It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
	It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
	Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
	Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
	One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
	Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
	Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
	Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
	Shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
	The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
	The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
	There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
	What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
	When I have a terrible need of— shall I say the word— religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
	The sadness will last forever.

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