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Painting Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
- In a painting I want to say something comforting.
- As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
- One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
- I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in…
- 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…
- What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
- Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in…
- 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…
- I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
- Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one…
- A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
- But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and…
- I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
- I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.
- Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
- There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
- 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 lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
- Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark...
- 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…
- There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a…
- I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
- I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
- When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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