Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Canvas

Quotes about: Canvas

• As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Art, Autumn

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

• Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Broken, Passionate, Canvas

• Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Broken, Passionate

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

• Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Forever, Energy

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

• The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Canvas, Idiot, Staring

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

• Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Canvas, Blank, Staring

• Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Insecurity, Canvas, Blank

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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