Vincent Van Gogh quote: "I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true."

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

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

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by se...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice w...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a w...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perform...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

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

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Conscience is a man's compass.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of i...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
VINCENT VAN GOGH

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see onl...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no l...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, mak...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see on...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmos...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Conscience is a man's compass.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I wish they would only take me as I am.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voi...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passer...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and ca...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Art is to console those who are broken by life.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no l...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The sadness will last forever.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Lo...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Every man must bear his own burden.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unb...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

For my own part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it. But to look at the stars always makes m...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutt...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feel...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

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

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific know...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colors
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in t...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put her...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gr...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live mo...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Red Vineyard at Arles.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it; till...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculati...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I'm able to get by very well in life, and also with my work, without beloved God. But I, a suffering...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especi...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Thank God, I have my work, but instead of earning money by it, I need money to be able to work; that...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Look here, I often feel the same in more than one respect--not just in financial things, but in art ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I dream my painting and then paint my dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and pai...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don't care for anything else; that...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Winning isn't everything...it's the only thing.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

A life without love is a sinful and immoral thing.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — some...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it
VINCENT VAN GOGH

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vince...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though d...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself head...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to la...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still chan...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my l...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler ou...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even�...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sent...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and tha...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At le...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was work...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought o...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a liv...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Now since I have seen the ocean with my own eyes, I feel completely how important it is for me to st...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'
VINCENT VAN GOGH

The more I think about it,the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, a...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

How difficult it is to be simple.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Conscience is a man's compass
VINCENT VAN GOGH

What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrou...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointme...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidenc...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I wil...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, witho...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

There is peace even in the storm
VINCENT VAN GOGH

عزيزي ثيو:
إلى أين تمضي الحياة بي؟ ما الذي يصنعه العق...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Dear brother,

I feel what Pa and Ma instinctively think about me (I don’t say reasonabl...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a per...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more ri...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the crit...
VINCENT VAN GOGH

I'm such a nobody.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.
THEO VAN GOGH

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.
THEO VAN GOGH

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails mean...
VINCENT NICHOLS

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round an...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worr...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not t...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I cou...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to f...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

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Vincent Van Gogh

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Vincent Van Gogh

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