Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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.
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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 tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
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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 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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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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I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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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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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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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
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The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
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It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
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Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.
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It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.
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It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
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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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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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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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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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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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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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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.