Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
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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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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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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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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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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
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There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
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To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
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What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?
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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
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It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
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There is peace even in the storm
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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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 you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
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I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.