One of the most difficult things to do...... Quote by "Vincent van Gogh"

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
— Vincent van Gogh

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My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.
— Vincent van Gogh The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Tags: van-gogh, painting, meaning, life-lessons, artist, art

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.
— Vincent van Gogh The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Tags: van-gogh, memories, love, life-lessons

To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours, their blending and their contrast, the mysterious vibrations of related tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark background. To express hope by some star. Someone's passion by the radiance of the setting sun. That's certainly no realistic trompe l'oeil, but something that really exists, isn't it?
— Vincent van Gogh The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Tags: vibration, verisimilitude, painting, love, hope, expression, exist, creation, color, art

So instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress.
— Vincent van Gogh The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Tags: perseverance, hope, despair, depression

You may know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way.
— Vincent van Gogh

Tags: life, hope, art