Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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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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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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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 am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
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If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.
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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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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
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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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To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
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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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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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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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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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Art is to console those who are broken by life.
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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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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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.