Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
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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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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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There is peace even in the storm
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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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It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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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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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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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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If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.
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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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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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What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?
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I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.
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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 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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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.