3 Vincent Willem Van Gogh Quotes on Inspiration

Vincent Willem Van Gogh quotes on inspiration

23. After all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gaps, but there is something in it of what wood or beech or figure has told me, and it is not a tame or conventional language, that proceeds not from nature itself but from a studied manner or a system.

32. How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone.

69. Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to stay in the south and to experience the color which must be carried to the uttermost - it is not far to Africa.