The
best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh |
The
fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible,
but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for
remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh |
The
great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van Gogh |
The
majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not
see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they
call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs.
Vincent Van Gogh |
The
more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more
artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van Gogh |
The
night is even more richly colored than the day . . . If only
you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are
citron-yellow, others have a pink glow, or a green, blue and
forget-me-not brilliance. And without expatiating on this theme
it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-
black surface is not enough.
Vincent Van Gogh |
There
is the same difference in a person before and after he is in
love as between an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The
lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it sheds light,
too, and that is its real function. And love makes one more
calm about many things, and so one is more fit for one's work.
Vincent Van Gogh |
To
believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a
dead one, or a stuffed one, but a living one, who with irresistible
force urges us towards more loving.
Vincent Van Gogh |
What
lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter,
and then the painting.
Vincent Van Gogh |