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Artist Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
- The great artist is the simplifier.
- 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…
- It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
- I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It…
- To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one…
- In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
- I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and…
- Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.
- Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
- In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first…
- An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it…
- The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
- Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity.
- Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give…
- An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
- It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality…
- The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
- Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,…
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- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
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