Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by symbolic colourisation and dramatic, impulsive and highly expressive paintwork. He sold only one painting during his lifetime and...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth30 March 1853
CityZundert, Netherlands
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
I never get tired of the blue sky.
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.
There is nothing more artistic than loving people.
Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
You have first to experience what you want to express.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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.
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.