677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

I will not live without love.

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.