Occupation: Artist Birth: June 7, 1848 Death: May 8, 1903
In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block..
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses..
If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a sco….
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little….
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make som….
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about paint….
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers ….
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing a….
Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I exp….
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see ….
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model..
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer..
Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors….
Art is either revolution or plagiarism.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite..
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!.
The work of a man is the explanation of the man..
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone..
Civilization is paralysis..
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form..