Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes From Vincent Van Gogh How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. Vincent Van Gogh lonelyrememberart Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. Vincent Van Gogh emotionalfeelingslittles I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone. Vincent Van Gogh halfgonereason Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. Vincent Van Gogh great-things What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way? Vincent Van Gogh usemindway One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it. Vincent Van Gogh paintinglightdarkness There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. Vincent Van Gogh tiredregretthinking And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work. Vincent Van Gogh valentines-dayfitway By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . . Vincent Van Gogh one-dayfightingmen What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came. Vincent Van Gogh breadheartway One can never study nature too much and too hard Vincent Van Gogh too-muchstudynature To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite. Vincent Van Gogh impressivepartyopposites The sight of stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh starssightdream If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger. Vincent Van Gogh meaningless-thingsstrongerlight You know, what makes the prison disappear is every deep, serious attachment. To be friends, to be brothers, to love; that opens the prison through sovereign power, through a most powerful spell. But he who doesn't have that remains in death. But where sympathy springs up again, life springs up again. Vincent Van Gogh powerfulbrotherspring To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones. Vincent Van Gogh colorvibrationstwo Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. Vincent Van Gogh excitementmysteriousbeautiful It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too. Vincent Van Gogh armslegsbrain You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream. Vincent Van Gogh starsdreamsky Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes. Vincent Van Gogh strokespaintingfigures
