Vincent van Gogh Quotes

• It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I’m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I’ll always remain half crazy.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Only, True

• Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Keep, True

• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don’t care much whether I live a longer or shorter time. the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Earth, Myself

• Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Challenge, Failure, Mistake

  Tags in Fallibility, Fall

• An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Artist

• If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Things, Time

• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Though

• I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Drawing

• Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Essence, Change

• I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Painting, Change

• Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Painting, Own

• There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Only, Great

• A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Ethics, Action, Good

• Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hardly, Good

• Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Always, Give

• I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adventure

• There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Without

• However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but as you know the Impressionists have already got a stronger color than Manet. This painter of the future- I can’t imagine him doing.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Painting, Working

• You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Letters, Writing

• But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Mistake, Nature

Vincent van Gogh (71)

Birth:	30th March, 1853
Death:	29th July, 1890
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Painter

About

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

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