677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.

One wants to be an honest man; one is so, one works hard; but still one cannot make both ends meet; on must give up the work, there is no chance of carrying it out without spending more on it than one gets back for it; one gets a feeling of shortcomi

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me...

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

The laws of color are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.