Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.
Civilization is paralysis.
Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."
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