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
Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to stay in the south and to experience the color which must be carried to the uttermost- it is not far to Africa.
However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but as you know the Impressionists have already got a stronger color than Manet. This painter of the future- I can't imagine him doing
Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.
There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
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.
Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones...
The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
Yellow is capable of charming God.
The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.