Explore Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

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

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.