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Quotations about Art by Author
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Vincent
van Gogh |
Painting
demands an intelligent model.
[Letter to his brother Theo, August 1888] |
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Vincent
van Gogh |
Try
to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for
that is the
true way to learn to understand art more and more.
Painters understand
nature and love her and teach us to see her.
If one really loves nature, one
can find beauty everywhere. [Letter to Theo, 1873] |
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Vincent
van Gogh |
I
often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than
the day.
[Letter to Theo, Letter 533, Arles, 8 September 1888] |
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Vincent
van Gogh |
To
paint nature you must be in it a long time"
[Letter June 25 1889] |
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Vincent
van Gogh |
I
am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a
marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each
other . . . complement each other as a man and a woman do. |
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Vasari |
As
long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead. |
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Voltaire |
Common
sense is not so common. |
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Voltaire |
History
is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead. |
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Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr. |
The
primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is
that it enables one’s soul to grow
[New York Times May 24, 1999] |
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