Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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.
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If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.
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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.
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Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
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The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
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The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
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I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.
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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
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One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
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In spite of everything, I shall rise again
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Yellow is capable of charming God.
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In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.