Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.
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If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
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Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of 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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There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
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By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
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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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Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
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In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
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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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It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.
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a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
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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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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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Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.
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If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.