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I wish they would only take me as I am.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.
— Vincent Van Gogh
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
— Vincent Van Gogh
In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.
— Vincent Van Gogh
There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Every man must bear his own burden.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing is the root of everything!
— Vincent Van Gogh
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
— Vincent Van Gogh
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent Van Gogh
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
— Vincent Van Gogh
There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Someday death will take us to another star.
— Vincent Van Gogh
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the
— Vincent Van Gogh
But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
— Vincent Van Gogh
God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them
— Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I will not live without love.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
— Vincent Van Gogh
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
— Vincent Van Gogh
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The earth from afar shines like a star
— Vincent Van Gogh
What is done in love is done well.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.
— Vincent Van Gogh
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
— Vincent Van Gogh
To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter ...
— Vincent Van Gogh
Be of good heart.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
— Vincent Van Gogh
I thought I would be understood without words.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.
— Vincent Van Gogh
To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
— Vincent Van Gogh
You cannot be the good all the time - sometimes it is necessary to get angry.[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone
Life is too short to do the whole.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
— Irving Stone
![Vincent Van Gogh Quotes By Irving Stone: Loneliness is a kind of prison.[Vincent Van Gogh]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/vincent-van-gogh-quotes-by-irving-stone-525698.jpg "Vincent Van Gogh Quotes By Irving Stone: Loneliness is a kind of prison.[Vincent Van Gogh]")
Loneliness is a kind of prison.[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
— Vincent Van Gogh
They said what doesn't kill you made you stronger. No, it left you with holes blown through your soul.
— Michael Grant
Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.
— Tupac Shakur
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
— Jerry Saltz
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
— Vincent Van Gogh
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
— Bill Griffith
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
— Vincent Van Gogh
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world
— Vincent Van Gogh
Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
— Vincent Van Gogh
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.
— Vincent Van Gogh
No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..
— Vincent Van Gogh
The great artist is the simplifier.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The sight of stars makes me dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.
— Deborah Heiligman
It is good to love many things
— Vincent Van Gogh
One must seize the reality of one's fate and that's that.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved
— Vincent Van Gogh
Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
— Vincent Van Gogh
How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
— Vincent Van Gogh