Painting Quote by Charles Bukowski

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh”

— Ingo Walther

“Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh’s mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as he chose…

— Vincent van Gogh

“We all can’t paint like Van Gogh. We might not be the ones who found cure for cancer or invented flying shoes but it…

— Nesta Jojoe Erskine

“Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the…

— Charles Bukowski

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

— Peter D. Kramer

“A canvas needs to be seduced; but Van Gogh, he, he raped it.”

— Zouave Milliet

“Paint the canvas of your dreams with the blood of your sweat. You are the Picasso of your own life.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Right here people might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of—or because of—his…

— David Lynch

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”

— Annette Messager

“When children paint, they express their ideas rather than their perception, and when Picasso had recourse to such a technique, then that was his…

— Ingo F. Walther

“One of the things people generally admire about Van Gogh, even though they were not always aware of it, was the way he could…

— David Markson

“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they…

— Isaac Asimov