Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — 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
Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. — 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
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. — 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
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
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — 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
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe… — 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
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
I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me.… — 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
I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in… — 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
“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
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
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
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it… — 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
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
