Painting Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

— Vincent Van Gogh

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

— 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

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.…

— Vincent Van Gogh

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has…

— Vincent van Gogh

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they…

— 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

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all…

— 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

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes…

— Vincent Van Gogh

What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“And although it was in a hospital that she lay and I sat next to her—it is always that eternal poetry of…

— 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 painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how…

— Vincent Van Gogh

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In a painting I want to say something comforting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

— Vincent Van Gogh