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Vincent Van Gogh has 357 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does…
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I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more…
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what…
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't…
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source…
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The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who…
— Jenny Saville
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so…
— Claude Monet
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It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such…
— Theophile Gautier
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The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction…
— Clement Greenberg
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To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had…
— Alfred Sisley
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Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it…
— Anthony Caro
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