677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

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.

You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.