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
“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men” — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. — 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
I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human. — 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
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and… — 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
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own… — 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
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end… — 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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when… — 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
“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
Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind… — 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
I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a… — 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
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
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
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
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
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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