677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.