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
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
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
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
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
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
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit. — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. — 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
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
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
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. — 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
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
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet. — 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
