677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

We take death to reach a star

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.