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~ V i n c e n t van Gogh ~
"I want to get to the point where people say of my work: 'that man feels deeply.'" "Love many things for therein lies the true strength, whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." |
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Many of our favourite Van Gogh paintings were painted in 1888 or 1889, when Vincent lived in Arles, France. "I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream." "Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more." 
Despite his tragic death and internal conflicts, I feel inspired by his life and the way he saw beauty in love and nature. Vincent was such a gifted artist and it is a shame his artwork became famous and priceless only after his lifetime. Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that is the difficulty. I think there are no signs in my work that indicate that I shall fail. And I am not a person who works slowly or tamely. Drawing becomes a passion with me, and I throw myself into it more and more. I do not have great plans for the future; if for a moment I feel rising within me the desire for a life without care, for prosperity, each time I go fondly back to the trouble and the cares, to a life full of hardship, and think: It is better so; I learn more from it, and make progress. This is not the road on which one perishes. I only hope the trouble and the cares will not become unbearable, and I have confidence I shall succeed in earning enough to keep myself, not in luxury, but as one who eats his bread in the sweat of his brow. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture. *Vincent and Me ~ a children's video we enjoyed about a girl who adores Vincent van Gogh |
Jessi and Vincent
Jessi was given a book about Vincent Van Bear when Jessi was a year old. It's great! A Jessi favourite! I think he enjoyed it most when he was age 2 and 3, when he also enjoyed looking at art books borrowed from the library, and some special art books I bought for him and me :-)... |
~ More Vincent van Gogh quotes ~It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. About his extremely busy and productive period in Arles in 1888: "I have to warn you that everyone will say I work too fast. Don't believe a word of it. Is it not emotion, the true feeling of nature that guides us, and if now and then these emotions are so strong that you work without realising that you are working, when now and then the strokes of the brush come in a sequence and relationship one to the other like words in a speech or in a letter, you must remember that it has not always been like that and that in the future, too, there will be many trying days without inspiration. So we must strike while the iron is hot and put the iron aside when it has been forged." ~ Vincent, 1888 Van Gogh links: The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
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I love art, and Vincent van Gogh is one of my favourite artists. My young child is a fan too :-)
