677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the might breath which gives life to all things and in which is bound up remained.

Art is but imitation of nature.

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.

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

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

In trees, I see expression and soul

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.