Vincent Van Gogh

We must not judge God from this world. It’s just a study that didn’t come off. It’s only a master who could make such a blunder.

Vincent Van Gogh

We spend our whole lives in unconscious exercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words.

Vincent Van Gogh

Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Vincent Van Gogh

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

Vincent Van Gogh

What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

Vincent Van Gogh

What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.

Vincent Van Gogh

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Vincent Van Gogh

When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly ’til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling.

Vincent Van Gogh

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh