Vincent Van Gogh

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can’t really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that’s to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can’t get on with the work.

Vincent Van Gogh

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Vincent Van Gogh

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

Vincent Van Gogh

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Vincent Van Gogh

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

Vincent Van Gogh

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me… a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

Vincent Van Gogh