Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.
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To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.
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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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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
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There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
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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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Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
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Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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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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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
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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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a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
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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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I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For 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. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
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It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
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There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
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Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
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As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.
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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
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I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.