Vincent Van Gogh Painting Quotations

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

In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the cafe is a place where one can ruin oneself, become crazy and criminal. Through the contrast of the delicate pink, blood red and dark red, of mild Louis XV and Veronese gr

I dream my painting and then paint my dream.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.