-
I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I wish they would take me as I am.
Vincent Van Gogh
-
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
Vincent Van Gogh -
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
Vincent Van Gogh -
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.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
Vincent Van Gogh -
For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.
Vincent Van Gogh
-
Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]
Vincent Van Gogh -
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
Vincent Van Gogh -
If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.
Vincent Van Gogh
-
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Vincent Van Gogh -
What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.
Vincent Van Gogh -
To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
Vincent Van Gogh
-
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.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh -
We take death to reach a star
Vincent Van Gogh