Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
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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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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.
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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
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People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
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Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.
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There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
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Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
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It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.
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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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There is peace even in the storm
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If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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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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I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.