Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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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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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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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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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 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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One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
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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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The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
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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 peace even in the storm
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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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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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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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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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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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I'll start with small things.
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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 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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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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Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.