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Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

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.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Drawing is the root of everything!

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

I will not live without love.

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.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me ... a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

What is done in love is done well.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter ...

Be of good heart.

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark ...

I'll start with small things.

Conscience is a man's compass.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

I want to do drawings which touch some people ... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art ... ?

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it ...

Love is something eternal ... The aspect may change but not the essence.

Love makes one calmer about things, and that way, one is fit for one's work.

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

I thought I would be understood without words.

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.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

Life is too short to do the whole.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

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.

It interests me tremendously to make copies ... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

T has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

There is nothing more artistic than loving people.

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

You have first to experience what you want to express.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

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.

We take death to reach a star

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

The best way to know life is to love many things