Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Vincent Van Gogh on Wise Famous Quotes.
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
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.
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.
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 ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
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!
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
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.
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.
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 ...
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 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.
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
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.
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.
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 ...
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.
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.
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.
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
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.
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.
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.