Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Paintings
Painter
Life
Related Quotes:
" Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Slave
Become
Imagination
" It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Reality
Nature
More
" Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Knowledge
Good
Fantasy
" I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Dream
Painting
Paint
" Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Public
Faith
Duty
" If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? "
Vincent Van Gogh
Vanity
Youth
Men
" But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Know
Best
Always
" Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Small Things
Together
Small
" I wish they would only take me as I am. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Take
Me
I Wish
" What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? "
Vincent Van Gogh
Courage
Would
Life
" There is no blue without yellow and without orange. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Blue
Yellow
Without
" I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. "
Vincent Van Gogh
See
Corners
I See
" Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Done
True
Love Is
" One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. "
Vincent Van Gogh
See
Sit
Way
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas
" 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
Insight
Understanding
Time
" The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Storm
Sea
Know
" 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
You
Will
Voice
" The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Nothing
Love
Think
" For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Know
Stars
Nothing
" I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Mind
Lost
Soul
" How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? "
Vincent Van Gogh
Something
Useful
Service
" I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Suffering
God
I Am
" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Nature
Need
Religion
" I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Want
Help
Faith
" 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
Fall
Knowledge
My Own
" Conscience is a man's compass. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Conscience
Compass
Man
" One must work and dare if one really wants to live. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Really
Must
Live
" I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. "
Vincent Van Gogh
More
Alive
Positive
" 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
Beautiful
Nature
Experience