26/7/23 - what an awesome experience at the Van Gogh exhibition at RWS Sentosa!
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The video:-
Reflections:-
Reflections:-
A tragic life story of this creative artist, Van Gogh
His quotes:-
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars make me dream “
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day”
“I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people
Approve or disapprove”
“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Normality is a paved road; it’s comfortable to walk , but no flowers grow on it”
“If you hear a voice within you say”You cannot paint” , then by all means paint and that your voice will be silenced”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”
“What colour is in a picture , enthusiasm is in life”
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well”
“I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing GOD is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better”
“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy”
“But you must love with a sublime, genuine profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakeable faith”
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“I dream of painting , then I dream my dream”
What a dreamer VG was!
He was a star gazer for sure!
He was dead right about the colours of the night better than the day!
Recently I too have been star and planet gazing. Looking at the triangle conjunction of Venus and the moon and mars!
VG swirls perhaps came from his dream of the universe Milky Way and galaxy. So much of the resemblance of what we can now see
Thru the Hubble telescope.
The colours of the night- cannot be made even with our human paint of colours.
Such is our Creator God.
There is such a mystery of the heavenly skies above. Where man has yet to capture.
We with the plane can fly to about 10.000m above.
There is also a big deep blue sea mystery where we man , cannot even submarine to beyond 4000m! The Titan which perished recently before it could reach the sunken Titanic is a great lesson for us man.
What is this lesson?
Man. We a just a tiny little being on this planet hanging in the Universe. A planet- it rotates constantly to give us day and nite. Its revolution gives us seasons of life.
VG quotes pointed many a times to such a God. He too expressed Love in many of his quotes.
Yes. God is love. And Love is God.
Both intertwined.
So I totally agree with what VG had written.
“I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing GOD is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better”
So hope you will also start to love many things in life. Pursue love. And love is always chasing after you. If only you would also pause and gaze into the starry starry night ,
Like what VG did.
Do you have dreams?
Dream on.
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Do you know that suicide is illegal in red dot? Just about last mth, Malaysia law makers are getting this overturned in their land.
VG - Did he really commit this act with that revolver?
His letters to his brother Theo reflected his belief in God. Yet, did he really die in suicide?
When the day I stand before the Big White Throne , would I be able to see
This great artist VG too?
Such is a mystery. Only when the day comes I would know. The curious me.
