Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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To paint nature you must be in it a long time.
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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.
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The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.
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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
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The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
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The sadness will last forever.
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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.
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I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
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What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
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Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
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Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
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I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.
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I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
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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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If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.
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It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.
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In trees, I see expression and soul
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The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.