Vincent van Gogh Quotes
Vincent van Gogh Quotes:
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Starry Night Over the Rhone |
“I now consider myself to be at the beginning of the beginning of making something serious.”—Vincent van Gogh, Etten, on or about December 23, 1881, to Theo van Gogh
“Occasionally, in times of worry, I’ve longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no—just let me be myself—and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, March 11, 1882, to Theo van Gogh
"I'll start with small things."—Vincent
van Gogh, The Hague, August 5, 1882, to Theo van Gogh
“As you can see, I am immersing myself in color—I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, September 3, 1882, to Theo van Gogh
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Cafe Terrace at Night |
“I assure you that there’s a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It’s like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, October 8, 1882, to Theo van Gogh
“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, October 22, 1882, to Theo van Gogh
“I’ve never felt a desire (and I don’t believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, on or about October 29, 1882, to Anthon van Rappard
"Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, December 10, 1882, to Theo van Gogh
"I haven’t got it yet, but I’m hunting it and fighting for it, I want something serious, something fresh—something with soul in it! Onward, onward."—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, January 3, 1883, to Theo van Gogh
“Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, 3 June 3, 1883, to Theo van Gogh
"... now I say it less in words and more silently in work.”—Vincent van Gogh, The Hague, on or about June 16, 1883, to Theo van Gogh
“I’ve just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.”—Vincent van Gogh, Nuenen, on or about November 17, 1885, to Theo van Gogh
"The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent."—Vincent van Gogh, Arles, September 9 and 14, 1888, to Willemien van Gogh
“Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance…I’m going like a painting-locomotive.”—Vincent van Gogh, Arles, on or about September 11, 1888, to Theo van Gogh
"I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but still I don’t invent the whole of the painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made—but to be untangled— in the real world.”—Vincent van Gogh, Arles, on or about October 1888, to Emile Bernard
“One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.”—Vincent van Gogh, Arles, on or about November 12, 1888, to Willemien van Gogh
“It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn’t easy to paint oneself either.”—Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 5 and 6, 1889, to Theo van Gogh
“One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.” —Vincent van Gogh, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, November 26, 1889, to Theo van Gogh
Source: http://denverartmuseum.org/…/sta…/20-quotes-vincent-van-gogh
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