Vincent Van Gogh

I don’t know if I can convey the postman as I feel him… Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.

Vincent Van Gogh

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn’t dare to take things in hand?

Vincent Van Gogh

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse… I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Vincent Van Gogh

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I’ll recover from it, I’ll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I’ll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

Vincent Van Gogh

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

Vincent Van Gogh

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

Vincent Van Gogh

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

Vincent Van Gogh

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer’s fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

Vincent Van Gogh