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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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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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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. ↗

— 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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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗

— Morris Graves

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