When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes. — 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
I have walked the earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. — 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
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it… — 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
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“…I have a feeling of being at home when I am with Sien, a feeling that she gives me my own hearth,… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only… — 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
