Vincent Van Gogh

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work… and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.

Vincent Van Gogh

It seems to me it’s a painter’s duty to try to put an idea into his work.

Vincent Van Gogh

It’s as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Vincent Van Gogh

It’s better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

Vincent Van Gogh

It’s not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don’t know anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

Vincent Van Gogh

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent Van Gogh