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Vincent Willem van Gogh – holenderski malarz postimpresjonistyczny, którego twórczość dzięki żywej kolorystyce i emocjonalnemu oddziaływaniu wywarła dalekosiężny wpływ na sztukę XX w. Artysta w ciągu swego życia cierpiał na napady lękowe i narastające ataki spowodowane zaburzeniami psychicznymi. Zmarł w wieku 37 lat jako twórca nieznany szerszemu ogółowi, w wyniku postrzału z broni palnej – prawdopodobnie samobójczego.

Mało doceniany za życia, van Gogh zyskał sławę po śmierci. Dziś jest powszechnie uważany za jednego z największych malarzy w historii, artystę, którego twórczość stanowi istotne źródło sztuki współczesnej. Van Gogh zaczął malować na kilka lat przed ukończeniem 30. roku życia, a swe najbardziej znane dzieła stworzył w ciągu 2 ostatnich lat. Jest autorem ponad 2000 dzieł, w tym: 870 obrazów, 150 akwarel i ponad 1000 rysunków i 133 szkiców listowych. Dziś jego liczne autoportrety, pejzaże, portrety i słoneczniki należą do najbardziej rozpoznawalnych i najdroższych dzieł sztuki na świecie.

Lata wczesnej młodości van Gogh spędził, pracując w Goupil & Cie, firmie handlującej dziełami sztuki, i podróżując między Hagą, Londynem a Paryżem. Po powrocie do Anglii otrzymał posadę nauczyciela. Jego wczesnym pragnieniem zawodowym było zostanie pastorem. Od 1879 pracował jako misjonarz w górniczym zagłębiu w Belgii. W tym czasie rozpoczął sporządzanie szkiców ludzi z lokalnej społeczności. W 1885 namalował swoje pierwsze wielkie dzieło: Jedzący kartofle. Jego paleta w tamtym czasie składała się przeważnie z mrocznych, ziemistych odcieni i nie wykazywała ani odrobiny żywej kolorystyki, która charakteryzowała jego późniejsze prace. W marcu 1886 van Gogh przeniósł się do Paryża i odkrył francuskich impresjonistów. Później wyjechał na południe Francji i poddał się czarowi silnego światła słonecznego, które tam znalazł. Jego prace stały się jaśniejsze kolorystycznie, a on sam wypracował swój jedyny i bardzo rozpoznawalny styl, który w pełni rozwinął się podczas jego pobytu w Arles w 1888.

Rozmiar wpływu, jaki choroba umysłowa van Gogha wywarła na jego twórczość, stał się przedmiotem spekulacji po jego śmierci. Pomimo szeroko rozpowszechnionej tendencji do romantyzowania złego stanu jego zdrowia, współcześni krytycy widzą w nim artystę głęboko sfrustrowanego bezczynnością i chaosem myślowym wywołanym atakami choroby. Według krytyka sztuki Roberta Hughesa późne prace van Gogha ukazują go jako artystę w pełni zdolności twórczych i całkowicie panującego nad sobą. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Marzec 1853 – 29. Lipiec 1890
Vincent van Gogh Fotografia
Vincent van Gogh: 268   Cytatów 61   Polubień

Vincent van Gogh słynne cytaty

„Niedola będzie trwała wiecznie.”

Vincent van Gogh

ostatnie słowa przed śmiercią, wypowiedziane do brata.
Źródło: Collin Wilson, Outsider-artysta (van Gogh), „Życie Literackie” nr 9, 2 marca 1958, s. 10 http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=14903.

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Coraz bardziej staram się być sobą, stosunkowo mało dbając o to, czy ludzie to pochwalą czy nie.”

Vincent van Gogh
To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Rybacy wiedzą, że morze jest niebezpieczne, a sztorm straszny, ale nigdy nie uważali tych niebezpieczeństw za wystarczający powód do pozostania na lądzie.”

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„Ktoś, kto nie umie powiedzieć: „ta albo żadna”, czy będzie wiedział, co to znaczy miłość?”

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„Kiedy sięgniesz pamięcią wstecz, widzisz, jak wiele z naszego życia zmarnowaliśmy w samotności. Każdemu potrzebni są przyjaciele.”

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Vincent van Gogh Cytaty o życiu

„Miłość jest uczuciem pozytywnym, uczuciem silnym, uczuciem tak prawdziwym, że dla kogoś, kto kocha, wyzbycie się miłości jest tak samo niemożliwe, jak zamach na własne życie.”

Vincent van Gogh

„Jeśli chodzi o moją pracę, naraziłem dla niej życie, a rozum mój załamał się.”

Vincent van Gogh

Źródło: Collin Wilson, Outsider-artysta (van Gogh), „Życie Literackie” nr 9, 2 marca 1958, s. 10 http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=14903.

„Tak w życiu, jak i w malarstwie mogę sobie poradzić bez pana Boga. Nie mogę natomiast istnieć ja – człowiek cierpiący, bez czegoś większego ode mnie, czegoś, co wypełnia całe moje życie – bez siły twórczej.”

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Vincent van Gogh cytaty

„Nic nie poradzę, że moje obrazy się źle sprzedają. Ale nadejdzie czas, gdy ludzie zrozumieją, że są warte znacznie więcej niż cena farby, której użyłem do ich namalowania.”

Vincent van Gogh

Źródło: „Arteon” nr 2/2013, s. 6

O ludziach , O czasie , Obraz

„(…) to jest tak, jak z samobójcą, który widząc, że woda jest zbyt zimna, płynie do brzegu.”

Vincent van Gogh
O wodzie

„Wierzę, że im bardziej się kocha, tym więcej się czyni, gdyż miłości, która nie jest niczym więcej niż uczuciem, nie mógłbym nawet nazwać miłością.”

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O emocjach , Kochać się

„Gdy się kiedyś zakochasz, nie zostawiaj sobie furtki do odwrotu, albo raczej: jeśli się zakochasz, to nie będziesz myślał o furtce odwrotu.”

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O myślach , O myśleniu

„Może właśnie dlatego, że miłość jest uczuciem bardzo silnym, jesteśmy, zwłaszcza w młodym wieku (…) zbyt słabi, aby utrzymać mocno ster w ręku.”

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O miłości , O emocjach , O wieku

„Szczęście człowieka na ziemi zaczyna się dlań wtedy, gdy zapominając o sobie, zacznie żyć dla innych.”

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O szczęściu , Zapominając

„Tylko dla miłości nie ma przeszkód.”

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„(…) widok gwiazd zawsze mnie rozmarza w równie prosty sposób, jak czarne punkty wyobrażające na mapie miasta i wsie. Dlaczego, powiadam sobie, świetlne punkty na firmamencie miałyby być dla mnie mniej dostępne niż czarne punkty na mapie Francji?”

Vincent van Gogh

„Dobrze jest umierać, gdy się ma świadomość, że zrobiło się w życiu coś naprawdę dobrego, że pozostanie się w pamięci choćby kilku ludzi i będzie się przykładem dla potomnych.”

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O ludziach

„Miewam… straszną potrzebę… czyż wypowiem to słowo?… religii. Wychodzę wtedy nocą i maluję gwiazdy.”

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O religii

„Módl się o to, abyś umiał się modlić.”

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Vincent van Gogh: Cytaty po angielsku

“It is hard, terribly hard, to keep on working when one does not sell, and one literally has to pay for one's colors from what would not be too much for eating, drinking and lodgings, calculated ever so strictly. And then, besides, the models... All the same they are building State museums, and the like, for hundreds of thousands, but meanwhile, the artists can go to the dogs.”

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Quote in his letter, from Antwerp, Belgium, Dec. 1885; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 438) p. 35
1880s, 1885

“May God give me the wisdom which I need and grant me what I so fervently desire, that is, to finish my studies as quickly as possible and he ordained, so that I can perform the practical duties of a clergyman.”

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In a letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 19 Nov. 1877; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 113), p. 18
as student, in Amsterdam, staying in the house of his uncle
1870s

“I have [drawings of] about twelve figures of diggers and men who are working in a potato field, and I wonder if I could not make something of it, you have still a few, for instance, a man who fills a bag with potatoes. Well, I do not know for sure, but sooner or later I shall accomplish that, for I looked at it so attentively this summer, and here in the dunes I could make a good study of the earth and the sky, and then boldly put in the figures.”

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Quote in letter 169, from The Hague, January, 1882; as cited in Vincent van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, catalog-page: Dutch Period: - 4. Potato Diggers
1880s, 1882

“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”

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Quote in his letter tot Theo, from The Hague, Sunday, 18 March 1883; as cited in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Vol. 2 (1958) New York Graphic Society, p. 12
1880s, 1883

“If we study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass..”

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Quote in Vincent's letter to brother Theo, from Arles, Sept. 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 542), p. 39
1880s, 1888

“letter after his third attack”

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1880s, 1889

“I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began again to think instead of trying not to think - good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings [of Arles ] has helped my morale.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, France, 4 May 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 481), p 24
1880s, 1888

“If, therefore, you've already considered that Signac and the others who are doing pointillism often make very beautiful things with it - Instead of running those things down, one [Bernhard] should respect them and speak of them sympathetically, especially when there's a falling out. Otherwise one becomes a narrow sectarian oneself, and the equivalent of those who think nothing of others and believe themselves to be the only righteous ones. This extends even to the academic painters, because take, for example, a painting by Fantin-Latour — and above all his entire oeuvre. Well then — there's someone who hasn't rebelled, and does that prevent him, that indefinable calm and righteousness that he has, from being one of the most independent characters in existence?”

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Quote in Vincent's letter to Emile Bernard, from Paris, about December 1887; from letter 575 - vangoghletters http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let575/letter.html]
1880s, 1887

“And it's certain that unexpected new ideas are beginning to emerge. That paintings are once again beginning to be painted in very different tone from a few years ago.
The last thing I made is a rather large study of an avenue of poplars with the yellow autumn leaves, where the sun makes glittering patches here and there on the fallen leaves on the ground, which are interspersed with the long shadows cast by the trunks. At the end of the road a peasant cottage, and the blue sky above it between the autumn leaves.
I think that in a year's time — having spent that year once again painting a great deal and constantly — I'll change my manner of painting and my colour a great deal, and that I'm likely to become slightly more sombre rather than lighter.”

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Quote from Vincent's letter to Theo van Gogh, from Nuenen, The Netherlands, on or about Saturday, 25 October 1884; from original text of letter 467 - vangoghletters online http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let467/letter.html
1880s, 1884

“Here, under a stronger sun, I have found true what Pissarro said, and what Gauguin wrote to me as well, the simplicity, the lack of color, the gravity of great sunlight effects.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, Oct. 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 555) p. 28
1880s, 1888

“About staying in the south, even if it's more expensive — Look, we love Japanese painting, we've experienced its influence — all the Impressionists have that in common — and we wouldn't go to Japan, in other words, to what is the equivalent of Japan, the south? So I believe that the future of the new art still lies in the south after all. But it's bad policy to live there alone when two or three could help each other to live on little.”

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In a letter to brother Theo, from Arles, c. 5 June 1888, in 'Van Gogh's Letters', letter 620 http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let620/letter.html, Van Goghmuseum
Vincent was busy, trying to convince a. o. Paul Gauguin to come to Arles, and to settle there
1880s, 1888

“As well as the greatest optimist I see the lark soaring in the spring air, but I also see a young girl of about twenty, who might have been in good health, a victim to consumption, and who will perhaps drown herself before she dies of an illness. If one is always in respectable company among rather well-to-do bourgeois one does not notice this so much perhaps, but if one has dined for years on 'la vache enragee', as I did, one cannot deny that great misery is a fact that weighs down the scale.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Antwerp Belgium, Winter 1886; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 453), p. 38
1880s, 1886

“Of course I should be very happy to sell a drawing but I am happier still when a real artist like Weissenbruch says about an unsalable??? study or drawing: "That is true to nature, I could work from that myself."”

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quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands in Febr. 1882; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 20 (letter 177)
1880s, 1882

“As I feel a need to speak out frankly, I cannot hide from you that I am overcome by a feeling of great care, depression, a "je ne sais quoi" of discouragement and despair more than I can tell.
I take it so much to heart that I do not get on better with people in general; it quite worries me because on it depends so much my success in carrying out my work.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Drenthe, The Netherlands, Autumn 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 328) p. 21
1880s, 1883

“I'd like you [Theo] to spend some time here, you'd feel it — after some time your vision changes, you see with a more Japanese eye, you feel colour differently. I'm also convinced that it's precisely through a long stay here that I'll bring out my personality. The Japanese [like a. o. Hokusai, admired by Vincent] draws quickly, very quickly, like a flash of lightning, because his nerves are finer, his feeling simpler. I've been here [Arles] only a few months but — tell me, in Paris would I have drawn in an hour the drawing of the boats?... Now this [sketch] was done without measuring, letting the pen go. So I tell myself that gradually the expenses will be balanced by work.”

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In a letter to brother Theo, from Arles, c. 5 June 1888, in 'Van Gogh's Letters', letter 620 http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let620/letter.html, Van Goghmuseum
The Japanese artists with their colored woodblock-prints meant a great inspirations for several Paris' artists - they were extremely important for Vincent, these years
1880s, 1888

“This art that we are all working in, we feel it has a long future before it, and one must have some settled base, like steady people, and not like decadents. Here my life will become more and more like a Japanese painter's, living close to nature like a petty tradesman.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, Autumn 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 540), pp. 22-23
1880s, 1888

“To stroll on wharves, and in alleys and in streets and in the houses, waiting-rooms, even saloons, that is not a pleasant pastime unless for an artist. As such, one would rather be in the dirtiest place where there is something to draw, than at a tea party with charming ladies. Unless one wants to draw ladies, then a tea party is all right even for an artist.”

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quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands in Spring 1882; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 34 (letter 190)
1880s, 1882

“It is color, not locally true from the point of view of the stereoscopic realist, but color to suggest any emotion of an ardent temperament. When Paul Mantz saw at the exhibition the violent and inspired sketch of Delacroix…. the 'Barque of Christ' - he turned away from it exclaiming: 'I did not know that one could be so terrible with a little blue and green'. Hokusai wrings the same cry from you [Theo], but he does it by his line, his drawing, when you say in your letter - 'the waves are claws and the ship is caught in them'. Well, if you make the color exact or the drawing exact, it won't give you sensations like that.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, 8 September 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 533) pp. 32-33
1880s, 1888

“My dear Theo, Sincere wishes for your good health and serenity on your birthday. I would like to have sent you the painting of the potato eaters for this day, but although it's coming along well, it's not quite finished yet. Although I'll have painted the actual painting in a relatively short time, and largely from memory, it's taken a whole winter of painting studies of heads and hands. And as for the few days in which I've painted it now - it's consequently been a formidable fight, but one for which I have great enthusiasm. Although at times I feared that it wouldn't come off. But painting is also 'act and create.”

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Quote in his letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 30 April 1885, letter 497 - vangoghletters online http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let497/letter.html
Vincent refers to his famous painting 'Potato Eaters' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Vincent_van_Gogh_-_The_potato_eaters_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
1880s, 1885

“I am sure you will like it, it is such a fine business [art-dealer].... I am so glad that we shall both be in the same profession [art dealing] and in the same firm”

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Goupil and Co.
Quote in his letter to brother Theo from The Hague, The Netherlands (13 December 1872); as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 17 (letter 2)
Vincent's profession then was picture dealer at Goupil and Co., with branches a. o. in The Hague, London and Paris
1870s

“When I call myself a peasant painter, that is a real fact, and it will become more and more clear to you in the future, I feel at home there. By witnessing peasant life continually at all hours of the day I have become so absorbed in it that I hardly ever think of anything else.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo from Nuenen, The Netherlands, Summer 1885; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 400) p. 21
1880s, 1885

“I hope.... to paint some in a lighter gamut, more flesh and blood, but, at the same time, I am trying to get a still stronger soft soap and copper-like effect. In reality I daily see, in the gloomy huts, effects against the light or in the evening twilight.... which I compare to soft soap and brass color of a worn-out 10 centime piece.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Nuenen, The Netherlands, June 1885; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 410) p. 31
1880s, 1885

“Do you know what I long for sometimes? To make a trip to Brabant. I should love to draw the old churchyard at Nuenen, and the weavers. To make, for instance, during a month, studies of Brabant, and to come back [to The Hague] with a lot of them, for a large drawing of a peasant funeral for instance.”

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Quote of letter 295, from The Hague, 1883; as cited in Vincent van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, catalog-page: Dutch Period 2. - Weaver
1880s, 1883

“The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.”

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As quoted in The Path of Least Resistance : Principles for Creating What You Want to Create (1984) by Robert Fritz, p. 181
Undated

“I am busy painting every day studies of the weavers here, which I think are technically better than the painted studies from Drenthe, which I sent you.”

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1880s, 1884
Źródło: Quote from Letter 355, from Nuenen The Netherlands, January 1884; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, page: Catalog: Dutch Period 2. - Weaver

“Certainly after all you are right, damn well right - even making allowance for hope, the thing is to accept the probably disastrous reality. I am hoping to throw myself once again wholly in my work which has got behind hand.”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, France, 29 March 1889; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 582), p 25
1880s, 1889

“And my intention is to try to form a collection of many such things, which would not be quite unworthy of the title 'heads of the people.' By working hard, boy, I hope to succeed in making something good. It isn't there yet, but I aim at it, and struggle for it. I want something serious, - some thing fresh - something with soul in it! Forward - forward”

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quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands, 3 Jan. 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 257), pp. 20-21
1880s, 1883

“If I should find something it will probably be a position between clergy man and missionary in the suburbs of London among the working people. Do not speak to anybody about it yet.”

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In his letter to brother Theo from Welwyn, England, 17 June 1876; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 17 (letter 69)
as school teacher and lay preacher near London
1870s

“.. the best way to know God is to love many things. Love a friend, a wife, something, whatever you like... But one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence… That leads to God, that leads to unwavering faith... To give you an example: someone loves Rembrandt, but seriously, - that man will know that there is a God, he will surely believe it... To try to understand the real significance, of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God..”

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Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Cuesmes, Belgium July 1880; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 133) p. 39
1880s, 1880

“I fear that in a few years there may be a kind of 'panic', in this form: 'since Millet' we have sunk very low — the word decadence, now whispered or pronounced in veiled terms (see Herkomer), will then sound like an alarm bell. Many, like I myself, now keep quiet, because they already have the reputation of being awkward customers,5 and talking about it doesn't help. That — namely, talking — isn't what one needs to do — one must work, though with sorrow in the heart. Those who later cry out the loudest about decadence will themselves belong to it the most. I repeat: by this shall ye know them, [from: Matt. 7:16. ] by their work, and it won't be the most eloquent who say the truest things. See Millet himself, see Herkomer, they're certainly not orators, and speak almost reluctantly.”

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Vincent Van Gogh

In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 5 Nov. 1882 - original manuscript of letter no. 280 - at Van Gogh Museum, location Amsterdam - inv. b263 a-b V/1962, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let280/letter.html
1880s, 1882

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