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
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 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
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
“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
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period… — 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It quite often makes me feel sad that painting’s like a bad mistress one might have, who’s always spending, spending and it’s… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,… — 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
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
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the… — 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
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
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive. — 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
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true… — 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
Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting… — 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
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying ‘You are not… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if… — 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
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