677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin....

Painting demands an intelligent model.