The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
The sunflower is mine, in a way.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Someday death will take us to another star.
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
You have to first experience what you want to express
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
The sadness will last forever.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
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