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
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
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.
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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.
Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
Do not become the slave of your model.
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.