Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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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 lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
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Art is but imitation of nature.
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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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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 am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
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The more you love, the more you suffer.
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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 had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.
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The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
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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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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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Art demands constant observation.
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I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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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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Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!
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Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.
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Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
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I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.