In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.” — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men” — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
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… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child?… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share
