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“Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“How difficult it is to be simple!”
― Vincent van Gogh

“To understand blue you must first understand yellow and orange”
― Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh's 'Diary': The Artist's Life in His Own Words and Art

“The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Drawing is the root of everything!”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh