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
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. — 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
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
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that… — 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
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
“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 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
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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
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
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 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
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
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
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that… — 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 the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but… — 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
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
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
“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
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads… — 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
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
