Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.
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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
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To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
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We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
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That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
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Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
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I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.
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The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
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Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.
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Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.
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The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.
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I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
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If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to 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 well done.
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Painting demands an intelligent model.
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Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
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I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
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Yellow is capable of charming God.
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I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.