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Vincent van Gogh

“That thought, I can’t find the right words, is based not on something negative but on something positive. On the positive awareness that art is something great and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man’s soul, while much of the proficiency and technical expertise associated with art reminds me of what would be called self-righteousness in religion.”

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
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