Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
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.
The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
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.
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace
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.
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.
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.
In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
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!
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
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.
