Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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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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One can never study nature too much and too hard
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Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
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I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.
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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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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.
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When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.
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The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
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The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
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Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
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I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.
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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 am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.
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I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.
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If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
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The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.
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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.