Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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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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The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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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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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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The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.
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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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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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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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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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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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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
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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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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
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So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
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So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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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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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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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