And love is something eternal, it changes its aspect but not its foundation.
Source: Vincent van Gogh Letters, letter 330 (18 March 1883)
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Dutch · 1853-1890 · 10 quotes
Dutch · 1853–1890
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Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch painter and draftsman whose work became central to modern art after his death. His most important works include The Starry Night, Sunflowers, The Bedroom, Irises, Wheatfield with Crows, and many self-portraits, along with a remarkable body of letters, especially to his brother Theo. Van Gogh matters because he turned color, brushwork, landscape, and portraiture into vehicles of emotional intensity and spiritual urgency. During his life he struggled with poverty, illness, isolation, and limited recognition, yet produced an astonishing body of work in roughly a decade. His paintings helped shape Post-Impressionism and later expressionist art by making perception feel charged from within. His quotes, often drawn from letters, reveal a serious, wounded, disciplined artist thinking about work, beauty, suffering, and hope. His letters still make artistic vocation feel disciplined, vulnerable, and alive.
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Collected Quotes
And love is something eternal, it changes its aspect but not its foundation.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but getting it onto paper is something that unfortunately doesn't go as readily as looking.
This story is really nothing at all, and the scratch is nothing too, but from one thing and another you'll perhaps understand what I mean, namely that of late everything had a je ne sais quoi that made one feel like scribbling it down on paper.
In short, the whole of nature is an inexpressibly beautiful Black and White exhibition when there are those snow effects.
One becomes calmer regarding many things, and precisely because of that one is more fit for one's work.