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Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

“I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.”

Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

Book:The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

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The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

This book delves into the intricate symbolism found within the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, providing insight into the artist's intentions and the cultural context of his time. more

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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work is renowned for its vivid colors and emotional intensity. His paintings, such as 'The Starry Night' and 'Sunflowers', are iconic and have left a significant mark in the history of art. more

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“I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.”

Knows Looks Eye White Paint Conviction Strikes Spots Boards

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.”

Hard Black Results Painting Red Wine Brown Yellow Pale Vary Dissatisfaction

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.”

Feels Trying May Stills Done Dream Ought Bed Perfection Smoking Pipe Radiant Incompetent Unspeakable Splendour Smoking A Pipe Best Picture

Book:Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

“If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.”

Ifs Too Much Glasses Storm Loud Drunkenness

Book:Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

“When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.”

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Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.”

Education Paint Glad

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.”