Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
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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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I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.
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Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
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I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.
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My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
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Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
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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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I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
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In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart
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God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
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The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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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 dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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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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The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
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At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.
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What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.
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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
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I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.
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I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
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a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
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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.