It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
From Vincent Van Gogh
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
The way to know life is to love many things.
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.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
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