Inspirational Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

You have first to experience what you want to express.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The great artist is the simplifier.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

— Vincent Van Gogh

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

— Vincent Van Gogh

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

— Vincent Van Gogh

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

— Vincent Van Gogh

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the root of everything.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more artistic than loving people.

— Vincent Van Gogh

You have to first experience what you want to express

— Vincent Van Gogh

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

— Vincent Van Gogh

In trees, I see expression and soul

— Vincent Van Gogh

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

— Vincent Van Gogh

One can never study nature too much and too hard

— Vincent Van Gogh

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

— Vincent Van Gogh