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Art Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
- What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
- The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's…
- Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our…
- It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an…
- In a painting I want to say something comforting.
- Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is…
- What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
- My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of…
- I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he…
- Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against…
- I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
- It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you…
- Art demands constant observation.
- I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
- If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
- I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
- Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
- I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
- Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
- An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
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