Top 27 Van Gogh Color Quotes
#1. There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
Vincent Van Gogh
#2. I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
#3. I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
Vincent Van Gogh
#4. The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
Vincent Van Gogh
#5. I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
Vincent Van Gogh
#6. The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
Vincent Van Gogh
#7. You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
Vincent Van Gogh
#8. One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work.
Ann Leckie
#9. One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
Vincent Van Gogh
#10. I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other ... complement each other as a man and a woman do.
Vincent Van Gogh
#12. To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones ...
Vincent Van Gogh
#13. When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
Vincent Van Gogh
#14. Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.
Vincent Van Gogh
#15. But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?
Fernando Pessoa
#17. I'm also a big 'American Idol' fan. I think it's just great fun.
Jim Parsons
#18. As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.
Vincent Van Gogh
#19. Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
Vincent Van Gogh
#20. Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money
Livy
#21. Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
Vincent Van Gogh
#22. The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
Vincent Van Gogh
#23. The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
Vincent Van Gogh
#24. I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
Vincent Van Gogh
#26. It's not ever easy telling a person what they don't want to hear. Because we love them! There will be times; we have to do things in life that will break our own heart.
Ron Baratono
#27. Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors ... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
Vincent Van Gogh
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