Vincent Van Gogh

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Vincent Van Gogh

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure – that’s always far more effective than moralising.

Vincent Van Gogh

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Vincent Van Gogh

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

Vincent Van Gogh

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn’t alter the fact that I’m bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

Vincent Van Gogh

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

Vincent Van Gogh