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From Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- 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…
- I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture,…
- Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study…
- 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…
- At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent…
- I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy…
- As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.
- I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I…
- When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which…
- That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great…
- And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
- But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
- It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -…
- When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing…
- I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I…
- I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even…
- You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has…
- When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which…
- I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the…
- Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre…
- a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
- When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in…
- I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
- Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
- One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of…
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