Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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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 must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.
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If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
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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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No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again.
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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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There is peace even in the storm
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I'll start with small things.
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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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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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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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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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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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Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
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Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
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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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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too
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I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
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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!