Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
You have to first experience what you want to express
- Vincent Van Gogh
Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
- Vincent Van Gogh
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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
Old man — don't let's forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that we obey them without knowing it.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Conscience is a man's compass.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I'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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
- Vincent Van Gogh
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
- Vincent Van Gogh