Vincent Van Gogh

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

Vincent Van Gogh

I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

Vincent Van Gogh

I believe it is one’s duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

Vincent Van Gogh

I believe more and more that God must not be judged harshly on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

Vincent Van Gogh

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, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

I can’t work without a model. I won’t say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Vincent Van Gogh

I consciously choose the dog’s path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter…

Vincent Van Gogh

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don’t invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It’s a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

Vincent Van Gogh