677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

I'm able to get by very well in life, and also with my work, without beloved God. But I, a suffering human being, can not survive without there being something greater than myself, which for me is my whole life- the creative power...I want to paint m

I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.