Quotes About Art

Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...

Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh's mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as he chose not to paint before he had fully recovered from one of his attacks, so he refrained from writing at times of crisis. Throughout his life, admittedly, his letters bear witness to a man possessed, frequently agitated, enraged, dejected, obsessed, but never deranged, or emotionally or intellectually unstable.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart.

I couldn't care less what the colours are in reality.

But when shallI ever get round to doing the starry sky, that picture which is always on my mind?

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.

Biliyorsun, ÅŸakay?k çiçeÄŸi Jeannine'ndir, hatmi çiçeÄŸi Quost'a aittir, ayçiçeÄŸi de galiba biraz benim...

Housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the following plate was completed in 1886, portraying the unusual subject of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. The work has roused many interpretations, including a depiction of mortality and a prophetic cry of the dangers of tobacco. In the next two years, van Gogh painted two other paintings with skulls, illustrating his fascination with the macabre subject.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

Spero di avere un po' di fortuna con quel quadro dei mangiatori di patate.

Mi occorre anche una notte stellata con dei cipressi

I'm getting on well here, I've got a lovely home & I'm finding it very pleasurable taking a look at London & the English way of life & the English people themselves, & then I've got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn't enough, what is?

Painting a picture is as difficult as finding a large or a small diamond. Now, however, whereas everybody recognizes the value of a louis d'or or a pure pearl, those who cherish pictures and believe in them are unfortunately rare. But they exist nonetheless.

Avevo incominciato a firmare i quadri, ma ho smesso subito, mi sembrava troppo cretino.

pareceu-me que você, assim como eu, estava sofrendo por ver sua juventude passar em brancas nuvens; mas se ela nasce e ressurge no que fazemos, nada está perdido e a capacidade de trabalhar é uma nova juventude.

Pois às vezes é diabolicamente duro ficar totalmente fora da pintura e do mundo dos pintores e não ver nada dos outros.

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

mas sei muito bem como fiquei impressionado pela harmonia de verde, vermelho, preto, amarelo, azul, castanho, cinza.

é bem verdade que um monte de pintores ficam loucos, é uma vida que leva a ficar muito abstraído, para dizer o mínimo.

mas no entanto vejo na minha obra um eco do que me impressionou, vejo que a natureza me contou algo, falou comigo, e que eu anotei isto em estenografia.

Se eu me relanço em cheio no trabalho, muito bem, mas continuo sempre louco.

În sfârÈ™it, spre marea bucurie a proprietarului, a poÈ™taÈ™ului pe care l-am È™i pictat, a vagabonzilor de noapte È™i a mea însumi, trei nopÈ›i la rând am pictat f?r? întrerupere, dormind în timpul zilei. Fiindc? am impresia adeseori c? noaptea e mai plin? de via?? È™i mai din belÈ™ug colorat? decât ziua.

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