Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.
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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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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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Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.
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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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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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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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A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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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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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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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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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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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
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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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Yellow is capable of charming God.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.