Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Art
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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
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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 even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
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Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.
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Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.
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The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
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Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?
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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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Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.
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Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
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Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.
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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 one can do.
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Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.
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I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.
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