Vincent Van Gogh

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

Vincent Van Gogh

If you don’t have a dog–at least one–there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Vincent Van Gogh

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

Vincent Van Gogh

In a painting I want to say something comforting.

Vincent Van Gogh

In a sense I’m glad that I’ve never learned how to paint.

Vincent Van Gogh

In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Vincent Van Gogh

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

Vincent Van Gogh

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Vincent Van Gogh

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Vincent Van Gogh

Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully.

Vincent Van Gogh