"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

05 August 2021

Same.

van Gogh, Irises (detail), 1890


I don’t know if you’ll understand that one can speak poetry just by arranging colours well, just as one can say comforting things in music.  In the same way the bizarre lines, sought out and multiplied, and snaking all over the painting, aren’t intended to render the garden in its vulgar resemblance but draw it for us as if seen in a dream, in character and yet at the same time stranger than the reality.

Vincent van Gogh

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