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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."
"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."
"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."
"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."
"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."
"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
Explore more quotes by Vincent van Gogh
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."
"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
"Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
"Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work."
"And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them."
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