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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
I can only draw what I see.
Everything I have earned has gone into these gardens.
Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!