If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint”, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Archive for Painting Appreciation
Van Gogh – In His Own Words
Traditional Chinese Painting
Love the traditional Chinese landscape painting and the music.
Symphony in Blue and Yellow
Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers, Painted August, 1888
Symphony in Blue and Yellow
I am hard at it, painting with the enthusiasm of a Marsellais eating bouillabaisse, which won’t surprise you when you know that what I’m at is in the painting of some great sunflowers… If I carry out this idea there will be a dozen panels. So the whole thing will be a symphony in blue and yellow. I am working at it every morning from sunrise, for the flowers fade so soon, and the think is to do the whole at a flash. (Letter 526)
~ Vincent Van Gogh, Alfred H. Barr, 1967, p.30.
