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“I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.”

Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

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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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“If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.”

Ifs Want Wells Gone Subjects Shoes Planning Artistic Pairs Preoccupation Pair Of Shoes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.”

Thinking Soul Models Portraiture

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.”

Men Want Giving Used Men And Women Paint Radiance Portraiture Halos Vibrancy

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.”

Ifs Thinking Study Possibility Come Up

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

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

“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.”

Thinking Believe Long Past Cases Progress Periods Painter Absurdity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”

Ifs Reality Essentials Reflection Mirrors Aim Photograph Caught Drawing Colour Accurate Realism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.”

Different Products Photographer Realism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?”

Soul Reality Stars Sunset Realism Radiance Eagerness

Book:Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

“I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.”

People Want Wish Sadness Figures Serious Sorrow Drawing Landscape Melancholy Sentimental

Book:Van Gogh's

Source: Van Gogh's

“I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.”

Giving Looks Ideas Imagination Sleep Brain Style Ought Colour New Ideas Bedroom Simplification

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh