Vincent Van Gogh Quotes - Page 8

Quotes about:

• I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Anxiety, Feelings, Matter

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.30, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  18 Copy quote

• Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Sublime, Sacred

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

  30 Copy quote

• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Drawing, People

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

  8 Copy quote

• Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Wind, Encounters

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.49, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

  6 Copy quote

• My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sketchbooks, Witness, Happens

  65 Copy quote

• There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Differences, Romance

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

  25 Copy quote

• The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Earth

  "Vincent Van Gogh".

  18 Copy quote

• No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Blue, Yellow, Orange

  Leo Jansen, Vincent van Gogh, Émile Bernard, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker (2007). “Vincent Van Gogh: painted with words : the letters to Émile Bernard”, Rizzoli

  10 Copy quote

• I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".

  11 Copy quote

• I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Order, Painting

  13 Copy quote

• At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Easy

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.88, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

  7 Copy quote

• To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Two, Vibrations

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.74, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

  12 Copy quote

• I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, People, Want

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

• Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Jealous, Demand

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1588, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• 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 in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

  7 Copy quote

• But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Profound, Sublime, Trying

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

  21 Copy quote

• I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Corners, Poorest

  "Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters".

  8 Copy quote

• To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Long, Paint, Long Time

  7 Copy quote

• I'll start with small things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Small Things

  16 Copy quote

• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Stars

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

  101 Copy quote

• If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Horse, Ifs

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2150, Delphi Classics

  16 Copy quote

• I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Suffering, Alive, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Giving, Wish

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

  6 Copy quote

• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Ideas, Goal

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

  14 Copy quote

• I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  God, Thinking, Knowing

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

  9 Copy quote

Page 8 of 17

First

← Prev

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin