Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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One can never study nature too much and too hard
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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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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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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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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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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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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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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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It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.
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The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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 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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It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
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Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.
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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.