I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may. Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes From Vincent Van Gogh I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. Vincent Van Gogh scary dream beautiful My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it. Vincent Van Gogh opinion would-be art When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. Vincent Van Gogh battle fighting evil In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint. Vincent Van Gogh paint glad education Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come. Vincent Van Gogh portraiture soul thinking I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness. Vincent Van Gogh light heart thinking What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then. Vincent Van Gogh self believe thinking I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does. Vincent Van Gogh mad normal mind Someday death will take us to another star. Vincent Van Gogh someday stars My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself. Vincent Van Gogh paint care way 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. Vincent Van Gogh real love art And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them. Vincent Van Gogh men looks way If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward. Vincent Van Gogh people art moving I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards. Vincent Van Gogh passion regret men Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all. Vincent Van Gogh passionate broken real As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. Vincent Van Gogh painter importance painting It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph. Vincent Van Gogh opinion different jobs When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model. Vincent Van Gogh tone color may But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed. Vincent Van Gogh woe study trying Art is but imitation of nature. Vincent Van Gogh art-is imitation art
