Art Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

The great artist is the simplifier.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art demands constant observation.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more artistic than loving people.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him…

— Vincent Van Gogh

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads…

— Vincent Van Gogh

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what?…

— Vincent Van Gogh

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death,…

— Vincent van Gogh

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its…

— Vincent Van Gogh

But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a…

— Vincent Van Gogh

In a painting I want to say something comforting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is but imitation of nature.

— Vincent Van Gogh