Quotes About Emotion

What is done in love is done well.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

I would sooner paint people's eyes than cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is lacking in a cathedral - however solemn and impressive it may be. To my mind a man's soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a streetwalker, is more interesting.

Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh's mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as he chose not to paint before he had fully recovered from one of his attacks, so he refrained from writing at times of crisis. Throughout his life, admittedly, his letters bear witness to a man possessed, frequently agitated, enraged, dejected, obsessed, but never deranged, or emotionally or intellectually unstable.

I couldn't care less what the colours are in reality.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Avevo incominciato a firmare i quadri, ma ho smesso subito, mi sembrava troppo cretino.

Em suma, quero chegar ao ponto em que digam de minha obra: este homem sente profundamente, e este homem sente delicadamente.

quanto mais eu reflito, mais eu sinto que não há nada de mais realmente artístico que amar as pessoas.

It's true I'm sitting here lonely, but whilst I am sitting here in silence, my work perhaps speaks to my friend, and whoever sees it will not suspect me of being heartless.

Osecaj, cak i istancan osecaj za lepotu prirode nije jednak religioznom osecanju, mada verujem da su oba intimno povezana... gotovo svako poseduje osecaj za prirodu... ali samo malo njih oseca: Bog je duh, i onoi koji u njega veruju, moraju to ciniti i u duhu i u stvarnosti.

But always those same conventional eyes, noses, mouths - waxlike and smooth and cold. It cannot but always remain lifeless. And the painted portraits have a life of their own, coming straight from the painter's soul, which the machine cannot reach. The more one looks at photographs, the more one feels this, I think.

Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?

Art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man's soul"_Page.268

What is done in love, is well done

There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one comes to warm themselves by it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly' .

Whenever Lisa kisses me I feel like I'm levitating. It's a feeling I was never able to forget when we were apart and something I will never get sick of for as long as I live. Maybe even longer.

I screamed without making a sound. I sobbed without shedding a tear. I died, though my heart beat on.

Les morts font de ceux qui restent des fabricateurs de récits.