Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Soul, Mind

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Long Walks, Expression, Tree

• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Loneliness, Artist

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

• And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Soul, Portraits, Machines

• Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Soul, Painting

• In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspiration, Heart, Views

• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sad, Lonely, Loneliness

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

• Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Men, Skills

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2271, Delphi Classics

• One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fire, Soul, Burning

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

• Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Soul, Together, Body

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

• To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Light

  Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.

• Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Men, Hands

• In trees, I see expression and soul

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Expression, Tree, Soul

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1733, Delphi Classics

• Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Soul, Portraiture

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2878, Delphi Classics

• To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Reality

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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