677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn't dare to take things in hand?

Drawing is the root of everything.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish...

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark...

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.