Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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One can never study nature too much and too hard
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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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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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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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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I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.
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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 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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It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
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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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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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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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Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
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Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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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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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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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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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
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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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What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.