The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
Religion will never show the way.
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'
How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
Normal people do not create art.
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.
You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.
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