Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
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And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.
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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.
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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.
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We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.
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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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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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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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The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.
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I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'
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To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers – by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
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Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.