Frases de Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh foi um pintor pós-impressionista neerlandês. Sua produção inclui retratos, autorretratos, paisagens e naturezas-mortas de ciprestes, campos de trigo e girassóis. Desenhava desde a infância, mas deu início às atividades de pintura somente ao fim dos seus vinte anos. Muitos de seus trabalhos mais conhecidos foram finalizados durante os dois últimos anos de vida. Em pouco mais de uma década, produziu mais de 2 100 obras de arte, incluindo 860 telas a óleo e cerca de 1 300 aquarelas, desenhos, esboços e gravuras.

Van Gogh nasceu numa família de classe média alta e passou o início de sua vida adulta a trabalhar para uma firma de negociantes de arte. Viajou por Haia, Londres e Paris, posteriormente indo lecionar em Isleworth e Ramsgate. Profundamente religioso quando mais jovem, aspirava a ser um pastor. A partir de 1879, serviu como missionário numa região de mineração na Bélgica, onde começou a esboçar representações de pessoas da comunidade local. Em 1885, pintou seu primeiro grande trabalho. A paleta por ele empregada à época consistia principalmente em tons terrosos sombrios e não mostrava nenhum sinal da coloração vívida que viria a distinguir suas pinturas posteriores. Em março de 1886, mudou-se para Paris, onde conheceu os impressionistas franceses. Mais tarde, migrou para o sul daquele país, onde passou a ser influenciado pela forte incidência solar da região, algo que estimulou o desenvolvimento de trabalhos em maior complexidade cromática. Essa mudança veio a criar um estilo único e altamente reconhecível que encontrou auge durante sua estada em Arles, em 1888.

Após tempos sofrendo de ansiedade e com crises de desequilíbrio mental, van Gogh morreu aos 37 anos em decorrência de uma ferida de bala auto-infligida, num ato de suicídio. Até que ponto a saúde mental afetou sua produção figurativa tem sido uma questão amplamente debatida por acadêmicos. Apesar da tendência generalizada de se romantizar sua má condição psíquica, críticos contemporâneos vêem no pós-impressionista um artista profundamente frustrado com a inatividade e a incoerência forjada pela doença. Suas últimas pinturas, contudo, mostram-no ao auge de suas habilidades, completamente sob controle e, de acordo com o crítico de arte Robert Hughes, "ansiando por concisão e graça". Van Gogh é considerado um dos pioneiros estabelecedores da ligação entre as tendências impressionistas e as aspirações modernistas, sendo a sua influência reconhecida em variadas frentes da arte do século XIX, como por exemplo o expressionismo, o fauvismo e o abstracionismo. Sua fama póstuma cresceu especialmente após a exibição das suas telas em Paris, em 17 de março de 1901. Com uma vasta obra, o artista é considerado um dos mais importantes da história. Em sua homenagem, foi fundado o Museu Van Gogh, em Amsterdã, dedicado à difusão de seu legado.

✵ 30. Março 1853 – 29. Julho 1890
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Vincent Van Gogh Frases famosas

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Citações de vida de Vincent Van Gogh

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Citações de idade de Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh frases e citações

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“Quanto mais se ama, mais ativo será.”

Je mehr man liebt, um so tätiger wird man sein.
carta para Anthon G.A. Ritter van Rappard, Mai 1883

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Vincent Van Gogh: Frases em inglês

“The sadness will last forever.”

Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm
Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying
1890s

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”

Vincent Van Gogh livro The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Fonte: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is just the opposite.”

1880s, 1884, Letter to Theo (Nuenen, Oct. 1884)
Contexto: Oh, I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime - I have seen through present-day Christianity only too well. That icy coldness hypnotized even me, in my youth - but I have taken my revenge since then. How? By worshipping the love which they, the theologians, call sin, by respecting a whore [ Sien in The Hague ]), etc., and not too many would-be respectable, pious ladies. To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is just the opposite.

“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

Quote in Vincent's letter, from Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh : The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17
Variant translations: The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
As quoted in Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By (1999) by Mary Engelbreit
I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
1880s, 1888
Variante: There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”

As quoted in Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 176
Undated

“There is peace even in the storm”

Vincent Van Gogh livro The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Fonte: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“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.”

Quote of Vincent's letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, 3 April 1878; a cited in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 1872-1886 (1927) Constable & Co
Variant: 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 done well.
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 483
1870s
Contexto: If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. 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.

“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”

In his letter to Theo, from Nuenen, c. 9 March 1884, http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/14/359.htm
1880s, 1884
Contexto: Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.... I have not yet had enough experience with women. What we were taught about them in our youth is quite wrong, that is sure, it was quite contrary to nature, and one must try to learn from experience. It would be very pleasant if everybody were good, and the world were good, etc. - yes - but it seems to me that we see more and more that we are not good, no more than the world in general, of which we are an atom - and the world no more good than we are. One may try one's best, or act carelessly, the result is always different from what one really wanted. But whether the result be better or worse, fortunate or unfortunate, it is better to do something than to do nothing. If only one is wary of becoming a prim, self-righteous prig - as Uncle Vincent calls it - one may be even as good as one likes.

“Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason!”

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)
Contexto: There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.