His personal fulfillment did not lead him to evolve a cheerful Madonna; on the contrary this Madonna was sad; she had already, through his sculptures, known the Descent. The tranquility of his early b...
He...breathed inheavy gulps of air to prove to himself that he was three-dimensional.
As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or a scene over the roofs of Paris; for no man ever pictured anything but hims...
Loneliness is a kind of prison.[Vincent Van Gogh]
Only suffering grows big artists.
It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.[Vincent Van Gogh]
Religion will never show the way.
I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint l...
The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.
How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal m...
He turned, stood above the crowd gazing up at him. There was silence in the square. And yet he had never felt such complete communication. It was as though they read each other’s thoughts, as though t...
Kita harus bertindak sesuai dengan nalar kita, dan selanjutnya biarkan Tuhan yang menentukan nilai akhirnya, Kalau kau yakin pada saat ini ingin menjadi pelayan Sang Pencipta kita dengan cara tertentu...
There is only a God-given number of years in which to work and fulfill yourself. Don't squander them.
Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting is like music and it has to separate from everyday realit...
We are all are cripples in some way.[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre.[Vincent Van Gogh]
That may be true. But, Theo, there is one thing I cannot understand. You have never sold a single drawing or painting for me; in fact you have never even tried. Now have you? No. Why not? I’ve shown y...
You are a grand nerveux, Vincent, Doctor Rey had told him. You never have been normal. But then, no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn’t be an artist. Normal men don’t create works of art. They e...
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