‘My house here is painted outside in the yellow of fresh butter, with garish green shutters, and it’s in the full sun on the square […]. And the intense blue sky above. Inside, I can live and breathe, and think and paint,’ Van Gogh wrote to his sister Willemien in 1888.
Art – Vincent Van Gogh
“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.” – from Zadie Smith‘s 10 Rules of Writing
Art by Vincent van Gogh.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Art – “Interior of a Restaurant” by Vincent van Gogh (1887) Created in Asnières-sur-Seine, Paris.
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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh
“Vase with Pink Roses” (1890) by Vincent van Gogh
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Art – Kaoru Yamada (Japanese, 1975) Night
I chose the artwork because I believe it draws inspiration from Vincent, which does not make it less enticing and vibrant.
I am the lilac hunter
I prey for smells of never-ending springs
I hunt at dusk
as I grope for the blue
Forever…
Art – Vincent van Gogh
A poem written in 2016.
“Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje’s words are plain wizardry about visible wars and the invisible, the ones we battle everyday with us, shadows, dust and smoke. Nobody has molded love and life in such astounding stories.
He was born on the 12th of September, 79 years ago, in Sri Lanka.
Art by Vincent van Gogh.
“….and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
– Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh – Blossoming Chestnut Branches,1890
If you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, here are our 12 selections out of 2,500 world-class museums and galleries that are now offering virtual tours and online collections.
View the full article at https://hyperallergic.com/547919/2500-virtual-museum-tours-google-arts-culture/
Dreams do come true, now I can travel vicariously through all gold ages of art and feeling.
Vincent van Gogh, Memory of the Garden at Etten
“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
