Close friends Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

“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

One can never study nature too much and too hard

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

Painting demands an intelligent model.

— Vincent Van Gogh