At The Brink of Mysteries
Van Gogh looked at sunflowers and night skies very differently than most of us. The artist saw an explosion of colors within the “yellow” of sunflowers and a swirling depth of colors expressed in the “black” of a starry night.
The artist wasn’t so much painting what he saw objectively, but sharing what he felt intuitively. He felt an explosion of meaning in the ordinary objects all around him. He wanted to give us the gift of such sacred seeing. He used to say, “Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.”
Art comes from the inside out, there’s no way science can do that. Science comes from the outside in, there is no way art can do that. For me, religion is finding the invisible ineffable depths of our being that can bring heart, mind and will into harmony.
— Jim Rigby
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“If only you pay attention to it, you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expiating on this theme, it is obvious that putting little white dots in the blue black, is not enough to paint the starry sky.”
— Van Gogh
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“The collective disease of humanity is that people are so engrossed in what happens, so hypnotized by the world of fluctuating forms, so…
