Explore Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

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

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

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.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, _x000D_ but as a succession of small things linked together.

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.

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

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.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

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.