How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Vincent Van GoghRead
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
Interpretation
Great artists express profound truths through their work, leading us to a deeper understanding of existence and spirituality.
Vincent Van Gogh emphasizes that the masterpieces created by great artists serve as a bridge to understanding deeper meanings that can lead one to the divine. Each artist communicates significant truths through various forms of expression, whether written or visual, inviting us to contemplate the essence of life and spirituality.
In practice
This quote can be used in an art appreciation class to highlight the depth of artistic expression.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
Great things do not just happen by impulse, _x000D_ but as a succession of small things linked together.
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation. You want what you create to live, be it sculpture or painting or music. Like Michelangelo, he said, “I know the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.
This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
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