Vincent Van Gogh on art
“How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh The great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh 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.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NovalisNovalis Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
StendhalStendhal In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller It’s true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I’ve devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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