What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.
Vincent Van GoghThere 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.
Vincent Van GoghWhat a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.
Vincent Van GoghFor my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van GoghOne may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh