That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what?… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at… — 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 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
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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
No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely. — 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 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
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and… — 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
If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes… — 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
