677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters like mine, for instance. I care as little for the world's opinion as that man cared for what was right. To appear right was enough for him; what I th

If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.