Van Gogh | Holland Landscapes

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my paintings, but I cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create" - Quote in his letter to brother Theo.

"I have a study of a garden, almost a metre wide. Poppies and other red flowers in green in the foreground, then a patch of bluebells..

..At the end, black cypresses against little low white houses with orange roofs ..

..I know very well that not a single flower was drawn, that they're just little licks of colour, red, yellow, orange, green, blue, violet, but the impression of all those colours against one another is nonetheless there in the painting as it is in nature..

..You see that the motif is really summery" - Quote in his Letter to Willemien, 31 July 1888.

"I have a study of a garden, almost a metre wide.

Poppies and other red flowers in green in the foreground, then a patch of bluebells..

..I know very well that not a single flower was drawn, that they're just little licks of colour, red, yellow, orange, green, blue, violet, but the impression of all those colours against one another is nonetheless there in the painting as it is in nature" - Quote of Vincent, 31 July 1888.