Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Nature, Reality

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reflection, Reality, Mirrors

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2734, Delphi Classics

• How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lying, Reality, Deceit

• Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reality, Meditation, Tears

• To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Reality

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

• My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Rosemary Treble, Vincent van Gogh (1975). “Van Gogh and his art”

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