Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.
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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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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 try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
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How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
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I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
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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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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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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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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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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
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The more you love, the more you suffer.
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
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To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.
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The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
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One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.
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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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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
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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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Art demands constant observation.
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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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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.