Dutch artist.
"He was a post-impressionist painter noted for his brilliant colors and swirling brush strokes, e.g., "Sunflowers.""
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."
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
