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They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.
There is only a God-given number of years in which to work and fulfill yourself. Don't squander them.
Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to...
Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer created only one novel; throw away the individual bindi...
I will be an artist. I am sure I will.[Vincent Van Gogh]
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...
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...
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...
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...
An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.
[...] And suddenly Vincent clearly realised what his subconsciousness had known for a long time. All the talks about God are just childish elusion, just a lie that calms a scared and lonely ordinary m...
What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.
The artist has to take risks.
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre.[Vincent Van Gogh]
It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.[Vincent Van Gogh]
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 had come into the autumn of his life: a man had his seasons, even as had the earth. Was the harvesting of autumn less important than the seeding of spring? Each without the other was meaningless.
آیا معنی هنرمند بودن، فروختن است؟من خیال می کردم هنرمند کسی است که دائما می جوید بدون اینکه کاملا بیابد. فکر می کردم که مفهوم آن، مخالف «میدانم، آن را یافتم» است. وقتی می گویم که من هنرمندم، فقط مقصود...
The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back.