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
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it… — 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
Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But 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
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such… — 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
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
It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't… — 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
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the… — 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
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
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