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
I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved
Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
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.
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.
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.
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.