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Painter Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
- It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
- As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
- What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
- Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
- Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken…
- 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.
- I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
- Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is,…
- The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter…
- I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long…
- Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
- 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…
- Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is,…
- That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
- However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but as you know…
- If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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