Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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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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...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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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 am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.
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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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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
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I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.
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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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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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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
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Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.
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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
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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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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.