Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.
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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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There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.
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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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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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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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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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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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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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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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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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One can never study nature too much and too hard
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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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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
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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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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.
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To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
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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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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.