Vincent Van Gogh on artist
“The great artist is the simplifier.”
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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Art demands constant observation.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh It is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh If you end up falling in love with someone, it’s because of them. If you end up hating someone, it’s because of you.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh I wish they would take me as I am.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh
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An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.
Bob DylanBob Dylan My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy I feel it’s my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.
Bruno MarsBruno Mars I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
Bruno MarsBruno Mars The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
Max PlanckMax Planck I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.
Lil DurkLil Durk Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau I’ve only been interested in the artistic side of life.
Elton JohnElton John