Vincent Van GoghTo do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace371Time
Vincent Van GoghThe cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking… ▶371Politics
Vincent Van GoghHow rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. ✨ Vincent van Gogh (2014). Delphi Complete Works of… ▶361Thought
Vincent Van GoghHow lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.373Love
Vincent Van GoghIt is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.351PhilosophyTime
Vincent Van GoghAt present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and … ▶362SadnessTime
Vincent Van GoghI'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.351Death
Vincent Van GoghThere are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman. ✨ Derek Fell, Vincent van Gogh (2001). Van Go… ▶362Philosophy
Vincent Van GoghThe 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 so… ▶363Humanity
Vincent Van GoghThose Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.374Truth
Vincent Van GoghThere is no such thing as an ugly woman.363Hope
Vincent Van GoghIt seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. ✨ Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thou… ▶342PhilosophySadnessThought
Vincent Van GoghIf one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere. ✨ Letter to Theo van Gogh from London, vangoghletters.org. April 30, 1874.375Love
Vincent Van GoghOne of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.375Sadness
Vincent Van GoghIt always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme … ▶331Thought
Vincent Van GoghIf I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.365HumanityThought
Vincent Van GoghHow can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ✨ Vincent van Gogh (1971). Van Gogh's diary; the artist's life in his own words … ▶321Life
Vincent Van GoghConscience is a man's compass. ✨ 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,… ▶343Politics
Vincent Van GoghOnly when I fall do I get up again. ✨ Vincent van Gogh, Anthon Gerhard Alexander Rappard (ridder van), Anthon van Rappard (1936). Letters to an artist: from Vincent van Gogh… ▶354Sadness
Vincent Van Gogh...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? ✨ Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to … ▶365Politics
Vincent Van GoghI think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.321LoveReadingSadness
Vincent Van GoghI don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. ✨ Fictional character: Vincent Van Gogh. Loving Vincent, www.imdb.com. 2017.376Reading
Vincent Van GoghThe emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.332Time
Vincent Van GoghTo believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving. ✨ Vincent van Gogh, Vinc… ▶332DeathPolitics
Vincent Van GoghI feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a … ▶311Love
Vincent Van Goghl can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.… ▶355LifePoliticsSadness
Vincent Van GoghLove is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. ✨ Vincent van Gogh (1958). Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence366Love
Vincent Van GoghJust slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to… ▶311LoveSadness
Vincent Van GoghWhat preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way? ✨ Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). Vincent van… ▶344Thought
Vincent Van GoghFind things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful. ✨ Vincent van Gogh (2009). Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]367Humanity
