Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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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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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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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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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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I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
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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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No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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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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I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.
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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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The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
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I'll start with small things.
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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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It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
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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 have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.