Quotes About Connection

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

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.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

If you don't have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

I will not live without love.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I thought I would be understood without words

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

I want to paint humanity, humanity and again humanity.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored.

I have a feeling of being at home when I am with Sien, a feeling that she gives me my own hearth, that our lives are interwoven. This is a heartfelt, deep feeling, serious, and not without a dark shadow of her gloomy past and mine, as if some evil threatened us, against which we should have to struggle all our lives. At the same time, I feel a great calm and brightness and cheerfulness at the thought of her, and the straight path that is lying before me.

AÈ™a stau lucrurile, dar oare ce se petrece înl?untrul nostru se vede È™i din afar?? Un om poart? în suflet un foc imens È™i nimeni nu vine niciodat? s? se înc?lzeasc? la el, iar trec?torii nu desluÈ™esc decât un firicel de fum, sus la gura hornului, È™i-È™i caut? mai departe de drum.

Quanta beleza na arte, desde que possamos reter o que vimos. Jamais ficamos então deserdados, nem verdadeiramente solitários, jamais sós

O possível passional significa pouco para mim, enquanto que me resta contudo, atrevo-me a crer, o poder de sentir-me ligado aos seres humanos com os quais viverei.

What else can one do, when we think of all the things we do not know the reason for, than go look at a field of wheat? The history of those plants is like our own; for aren't we, who live on bread, to a considerable extent like wheat, at least aren't we forced to submit to growing like a plant without the power to move, by which I mean in what way our imagination impels us, and to being reaped when we are ripe, like the same wheat?

quanto mais eu reflito, mais eu sinto que não há nada de mais realmente artístico que amar as pessoas.

Mas o que me toca, assim como certos romancistas de nossa época, é que as vozes dessas pessoas, que no caso de Shakespeare nos chegam de uma distância de vários séculos, não nos pareçam desconhecidas. É tão vivo que acreditamos conhecê-las e vê-las.

Ao chegar aqui eu esperava arranjar apreciadores, mas até agora não me aproximei um só centímetro do coração das pessoas.