What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show… — 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
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
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have walked the earth for thirty years and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir. — 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
I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but… — 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
I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes… — 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
The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant,… — 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
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
The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot,… — 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
