It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it. — 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
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
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.” — 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
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
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 began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the… — 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
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
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
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
