That doesn’t stop me from having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word — for religion — so I go outside at night to paint the stars…
Eso no me impide sentir una necesidad enorme de — ¿uso la palabra? — de religión, así que salgo de noche y pinto las estrellas…
(Vincent Van Gogh: Letter to Theo Van Gogh, 29 September 1888 / Carta a Theo Van Gogh, 29 septiembre 1888)
…reading books is like looking at paintings… one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.
Vincent Van Gogh
Today’s quote has been variously attributed to Horace, Ovid, Quintilian and Tibullus. Possibly to some other authors as well. The only thing we’re sure of is that it is a Latin quote.
La cita de hoy ha sido atribuida a varios autores: Horacio, Ovidio, Quintiliano y Tibulo. Posiblemente a otros autores también. Lo único que es cierto es que es una cita latina.
Ars est celare artem.
Art lies in hiding the art.
El verdadero arte es ocultar el arte.
…Romanesque art is a world view expressed in stone.
(Cees Nooteboom: Roads to Santiago)
…el arte románico es una visión del mundo expresada en piedra.
(Cees Nooteboom: El desvío a Santiago)
From the age of six I had a penchant for copying the form of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing I drew was worthy of notice.
At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects and fish.
Thus when I reach eighty years, I hope to have made increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying principles of things, so that at one hundred years I will have achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.
Hokusai: Postscript to One Hundred Views of Mt Fuji, 1834.
Hokusai painted Beauty on a summer morning when he was forty. It’s one of those which he didn’t think were “worthy of notice”. (Just saying.)
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