Vincent Van Gogh

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

Vincent Van Gogh

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

Vincent Van Gogh

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Vincent Van Gogh

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

Vincent Van Gogh

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Vincent Van Gogh

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Vincent Van Gogh

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Vincent Van Gogh

I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

Vincent Van Gogh

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance… I’m going like a painting-locomotive.

Vincent Van Gogh