Vincent Van Gogh

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more you love, the more you suffer.

Vincent Van Gogh

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.

Vincent Van Gogh

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

Vincent Van Gogh

The sadness will last forever.

Vincent Van Gogh

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Vincent Van Gogh

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

Vincent Van Gogh

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in nature and concentrate on her.

Vincent Van Gogh

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

Vincent Van Gogh

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

Vincent Van Gogh