adversity

artist

autumn

being in love

black

blue

bookstore

canvas

carmine

cobalt

color

conscience

darkness

death

drawing

greatness

heart

irrational

life

looking

love

Mediterranean

night

normality

observation

painter

painting

Paris

peace

photograph

photography

portrait

reading

Rembrandt

singing

spring

star

Starry Night

storm

success

summer

tree

victory

Vincent van Gogh

watercolor

white

William Shakespeare

winter

yellow

nationality

Dutch

occupation / innovator as

printmaker

intellectual movement

expressionism

drawer

cause of death

suicide

Post-Impressionism

innovator in the field of

art of painting

botanical illustrator

is to humans what molting time is to birds.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

is jealous, and demands our whole strength.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

is a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too... at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

 serves to console those who are broken by life.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

is life seeking itself... it is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find.

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

is all the more an artist the more decomposed, sick and fragile one is.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist. (Vincent van Gogh)

 contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues.

Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.

is to the non lover what the burning lamp is to the unlighted one.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

is a color, and so too is white, for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine..

Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

is a divine color, more fine than any other for putting an atmosphere round things.

is a thing which in certain combinations cause each other to shine brilliantly, forming a couple that completes each other like man and woman.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

1s 2aws are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

is one of the hardest things paint, not complete darkeness, darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

is nothing other than the working of oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

What is drawing' It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

is itself, like the earth as a whole, wrongly believed to be perceived as flat (i.e. The distance from birth to death) but rather, it is likely spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.

At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well. . . we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know. Vincent Van Gogh

is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

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