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Vincent van Gogh Quotes
«It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome immediately. Maki»
«What am I in the eyes of most people--a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person--somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then--even if that were absolutely true, then I should»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
eccentric, eccentrics, in short, lowest, nonentities, nonentity, unpleasant, unpleasant person
«Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty. I think there are no signs in my work that indicate that I shall fail. And I am not a person who works slowly or tamely. Drawing becomes a passion with me, and I throw myself into it more and more. I do not have great plans for the future; if for a moment I feel rising within me the desire for a life without care, for prosperity, each time I go fondly back to the trouble and the cares, to a life full of hardship, and think: It is better so; I learn more from it, and make progress. This is not the road on which one perishes. I only hope the trouble and the cares will not become unbearable, and I have confidence I shall succeed in earning enough to keep myself, not in luxury, but as one who eats his bread in the sweat of his brow.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
brow, care for, drawing, draw back, earning, eats, fondly, hardship, indicate, more and more, perishes, Road signs, sweat, tamely, unbearable, work in progress
«You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.»
«I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
arranging, colors, departing, enlarging, model, ruthlessly, simplified, simplifies, simplifying, the matter, to enlarge, true color
«I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
attacks, haste, intervals, miner, miners, seriousness, spurs, strictly, strictly speaking
«Look here, I often feel the same in more than one respect--not just in financial things, but in art itself, and in life in general. But do you think it's anything exceptional? Don't you think every man with a little spirit and energy has those moment»
«In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal. Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis XV and Veronese gr»
«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 blessi»
«You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
figures, heath, heaths, landscapes, meadows, reflexive