 | Lucien Stryk - 1987 - 212 pages
...life, and life is too short to do the whole. And you cannot study Japanese art ... without becoming gayer and happier, and we must return to nature in spite of our education and our work in the world of convention. 131. The poem is based on the forty-sixth case of Hekiganroku: Kyosei, a ninth-century... | |
 | Cliff Edwards - 1989 - 252 pages
...grass,” and that study “leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons. . . .“ He continued: Come now, isn't it almost a true religion which these...in nature as though they themselves were flowers? (Letter 542) From his arrival in Arles in February 1888, Vincent was absorbed in painting the seasons.... | |
 | Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.) - 1996 - 216 pages
...Press, 1987). 156. 23. Vincent van Gogh voices this commonly held opinion in a letter to Theo in 1888: "Come now, isn't it almost a true religion which these...in nature as though they themselves were flowers?"; as quoted in The Complete Letters ¡if Vincent fan (ii't;b, vol. 3 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1958),... | |
 | Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin - 1998 - 364 pages
...interactions. Relating this "musical" approach to life to the essence of natural spirituality, he concluded: "Come now, isn't it almost a true religion which these...in nature as though they themselves were flowers?" 256 Gauguin wrote at even greater length than van Gogh on these issues, and evidenced more awareness... | |
 | Hans Belting - 2001 - 492 pages
...like a Japanese painter's, living close to nature' (Letter 540). Could his brother not see that it is ‘almost a true religion which these simple Japanese...in nature as though they themselves were flowers?' (Letter 542). This was, of course, no more than a beautiful fantasy in the Dutchman's mind. But Van... | |
 | Bradley Collins - 2009 - 283 pages
...and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure.... Come now, isn't it almost a true religion which these...our education and our work in a world of convention. 61 Instead of seeing the universe in a grain of sand, the Japanese "man of nature" finds it in a blade... | |
 | Bradley Collins - 2009 - 283 pages
...and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure.... Come now, isn't it almost a true religion which these...our education and our work in a world of convention. 61 Instead of seeing the universe in a grain of sand, the Japanese "man of nature" finds it in a blade... | |
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Come now, isn't it almost a true religion which these simple Japanese teach us, who live in nature as though they themselves were flowers? And you cannot study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much gayer and happier, and we must return to... 