If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for realit...
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Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.
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Our cravings canno't be comforted by our creativity, although we like to think they can. A million words after writing 'Look Homeward Angel' Thomas Wolfe was still tormented. After a million notes, Beethoven was not happy, after a million brush strokes, Van Gogh cut off his ear.
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For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don't care for anything else; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once, and I become melancholy when I cannot go on with my work. I feel then as the weaver does wh
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
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Conscience is a man's compass
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There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
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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
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
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I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors
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If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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The best way to know God is to love many things.
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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be There is something inside me, what can it be
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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 blessi
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
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Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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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, e...
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