Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

Love is something eternal.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

To know life, one must love many things.

It is good to love many things

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

You have to first experience what you want to express

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

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.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.