Wednesday, March 28, 2007
More Van Gogh's Quote
Van Gogh's Comments on His Paintings:
"A cafe in the evening, seen from the outside; on the terrace little figures are seated drinking. A gigantic yellow lamp lights up the terrace, the house fronts and the pavement,and casts out it's light onto the street cobbles, which take on a pink-violet colouring. The house facades in the street, under a blue starry night, are dark blue or violet,in front a green tree. There you have it - a night painting without having used the colour black, only beautiful blue, violet and green, and in this setting the lit-up cafe takes on a pale sulphurous yellow and lemon colouring."
VINCENT VAN GOGH
"A night sky with a moon barely able to give out any light, the slight sickle hardly able to shine through the dark earth's shadow - a star of excessive brightness, pink and green in an ultramarine blue sky, in which a few clouds float about. A road, bordered by high yellow reeds, behind the low blue alpilles, an old inn with orang lit-up windows, and a very tall cypress, quite straight, quite dark. On the road a yellow carriage with a white horse before it, and two late wanderers. All very romantic... but I believe typical of Provence."
VINCENT VAN GOGH
"The cypresses constantly occupy my thoughts - I want to paint something similar to my sunflower paintings. It's amazing that nobody has yet painted them as I see them; in their lines and proportions as they are as beautiful as Egyptian obelisks. And the green is such a special fine tone. The cypress is a black mark in a sun-filled landscape, but it is one of the most interesting black tones, and I can't think of any other tone that was as difficult to capture. One has to see the cypresses here against the blue, or more correctly, in the blue."
VINCENT VAN GOGH
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