Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art… — 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
I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers. — 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
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
Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really… — 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
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. — 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
But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am,… — 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
The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one… — 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
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
Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than… — 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
