Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
You have first to experience what you want to express.
- Vincent Van Gogh
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
One can never study nature too much and too hard
- Vincent Van Gogh
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
- Vincent Van Gogh
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
- Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
- Vincent Van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh
What is done in love is done well.
- Vincent Van Gogh
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
- Vincent Van Gogh
To 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
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
- Vincent Van Gogh