Art Quote by Zbigniew Herbert

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an…

— John Russell

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece…

— Steven Pressfield

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with…

— Charles Tomlinson

“ 'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools? ”

— Irving Stone

“But aesthetic value does not rise from the work's apparent ability to predict a future: we do not admire Cézanne because of the Cubists…

— Robert Hughes

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

— Billy Childish

“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought…

— Brenda Ueland

“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected…

— Kirk Douglas

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

If you're starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there's nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van…

— Ben Feldman

“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his…

— David Lynch

“To Vincent, his art was a record of his life more true, more revealing (“how deep—how infinitely deep”) even than the storm of letters…

— Steven Naifeh