Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.
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In spite of everything, I shall rise again
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To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.
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I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
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If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.
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I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.
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I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap
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It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.
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The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
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When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.
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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
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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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Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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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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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
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No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
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Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?
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There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.
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I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
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I'll start with small things.