I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter... — 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
If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice. — 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
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care… — 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
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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
When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but… — 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
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
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 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
What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. — 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
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will… — 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
