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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ↗

— Herbert Gold

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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. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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