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
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- If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- The best way to know God is to love many things.
- But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.