Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
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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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Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
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Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
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...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
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Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
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To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
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Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.
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My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
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I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.
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I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.
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My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'
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One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
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Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.
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What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.