Home › Authors › Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh Quotes
1853–1890 Netherlands
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
Also known as: Gogh, Vincent Willem Van, Van Gogh, Van Gogh, Vincent, Vincent Van Gogh
Random Vincent van Gogh quote
73 quotes
The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Gauguin interests me very much as a man - very much.
I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is?
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.
Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
The work is an absolute necessity for me.
If I should find something it will probably be a position between clergy man and missionary in the suburbs of London among the working people. Do not speak to anybody about it yet.
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh (1995)
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Variant: Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
..by going on drawing those types of working people, etc., I hope to arrive at the point of being able to do illustration work for papers and books.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
I believe so.. .Don't accuse anybody else.
I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore-- excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint them.
The financier is the desolation of the artist.
That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that?
I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is "shocking."
Letter to Theo (1880)
Topics Vincent van Gogh is quoted on
Works