In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
Vincent Van GoghIf you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.
Vincent Van GoghThe wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
Vincent Van GoghAn artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh