The sunflower is mine, in a way.
Vincent van GoghTags: sunflowers
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
Vincent van GoghTags: art strength love inspiration
Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.
Vincent van GoghTags: love
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent van GoghThere is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van GoghIt is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
Vincent van GoghTags: time
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
Vincent van GoghTags: harmony
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent van GoghTags: love
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.
Vincent van GoghQuick work doesn't mean less serious work, it depends on one's self-confidence and experience. In the same way Jules Guérard, the lion hunter, says in his book that in the beginning young lions have a lot of trouble killing a horse or an ox, but that the old lions kill with a single blow of the paw or a well-placed bite, and that they are amazingly sure at the job... I must warn you that everyone will think that I work too fast. Don't you believe a word of it. Is it not emotion, the sincerity of one's feeling for nature, that draws us, and if the emotions are sometimes so strong that one works without knowing one works, when sometimes the strokes come with a continuity and coherence like words in a speech or a letter, then one must remember that it has not always been so, and that in time to come there will again be hard days, empty of inspiration. So one must strike while the iron is hot, and put the forged bars on one side.
Vincent van GoghTags: to-theo
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