Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — 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
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. — 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
And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive. — 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
I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period… — 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
“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 would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying ‘You are not… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession… — 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
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
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting… — 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
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things… — 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
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
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
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, 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
The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet. — 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
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
