Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
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One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
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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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For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
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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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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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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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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.
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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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Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.
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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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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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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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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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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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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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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.