Carta a Théo (La noche estrellada)
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a beautiful explanation as to why Van Gogh’s masterpiece has resonated for over a century.
“You know what I like about The Starry Night?
It’s not what Van Gogh saw that night, it’s what he felt.
[The painting] is not a representation of reality and anything that deviates from is reality that has filtered through ... See more
“You know what I like about The Starry Night?
It’s not what Van Gogh saw that night, it’s what he felt.
[The painting] is not a representation of reality and anything that deviates from is reality that has filtered through ... See more
Hay que salir a observarlo todo, no una cosa específica, porque si no, al buscar eso, se pierde uno de lo otro; el gran observador, el que posee asombrosos poderes de observación, es el que encuentra lo que no estaba buscando.
Jordi Soler • Mapa secreto del bosque (Spanish Edition)
The darker the skies, the brighter the stars.
Cheng Xin now recalled the strange feeling she had experienced each time she had looked at Van Gogh’s painting. Everything else in the painting—the trees that seemed to be on fire, and the village and mountains at night—showed perspective and depth, but the starry sky above had no three-dimensionality at all, like a painting hanging in space. Becau
... See moreCixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. Pablo Picasso