Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, Heart, People

  Letter to Theo, from The Hague, July 21, 1882.

• I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, Weaving, Figures

• If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Baby, Morning, Ocean

  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 ...”

• What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

• I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, White, Boards

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

• The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, Yellow, Orange

• Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mother, Art, Father

• Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, Magic, Looks

  "Fictional character: Vincent van Gogh". 'Doctor Who' ('Vincent and the Doctor'), Season 5, Episode 10, www.imdb.com. June 05, 2010.

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