I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze. Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes From Vincent Van Gogh Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you Vincent Van Gogh inspirationalthinking The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. Vincent Van Gogh gratitudeearthyears We are surrounded by poetry on all sides. Vincent Van Gogh sides I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human. Vincent Van Gogh drawingablehumanity The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up. Vincent Van Gogh majoritywishpeople 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. Vincent Van Gogh beautifulpeoplethinking Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh artistpapereasy So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. Vincent Van Gogh lightpathforever Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. Vincent Van Gogh sacredsublimeart But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith . Vincent Van Gogh sublimetryingprofound I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply. Vincent Van Gogh wantmenpeople I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love. Vincent Van Gogh charactertwothinking My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. Vincent Van Gogh sketchbookswitnesshappens I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it. Vincent Van Gogh madnesschoicestaken Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way. Vincent Van Gogh artistfireheart What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody. Vincent Van Gogh eyeheartmen I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. Vincent Van Gogh fatedestinyadventure As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward. Vincent Van Gogh drawingpracticeart The sadness will last forever. Vincent Van Gogh sadsadnessforever To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Vincent Van Gogh sunsetstarslight
