Creativity & Innovation✓ Verified source
“Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
— Vincent van Gogh
Painter
From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874
About this quote
- Attributed to
- Vincent van Gogh
- Source
- From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874
- Culture / tradition
- Dutch
- Attribution status
- ✓ Verified source
- Verification
- Primary reference
Photo: SpaceX Photos · CC0 · source · Portrait: Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) (Public domain)
Reflect
Who taught you something like this — and have you thanked them?
The Sage Challenge
Share this with one person who needs it today.
Join to journal, save & shareCreate a share imageWatch & listen
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Stanford·Success
J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech | Harvard University Commencement 2008
Harvard University·Growth
Neil Gaiman 2012 Commencement Speech "Make Good Art"
Lennie Ann·Creativity
More from Vincent van Gogh & related wisdom
Creativity✓ Verified source
“You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
— Edgar Degas
a remark to E. Rouart [son of Henri Rouart in 1904; as quoted in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 274
Creativity✓ Verified source
“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The Future of Architecture (1953)
Creativity✓ Verified source
“Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.
— Leonardo da Vinci
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938) / I Philosophy
