Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes From Vincent Van Gogh The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star. Vincent Van Gogh starsdarkdream I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly. Vincent Van Gogh i-believeearthbelieve Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone. Vincent Van Gogh being-alonecreativitywhole Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily. Vincent Van Gogh energyforevermen There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. Vincent Van Gogh romancedifferenceslove One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant. Vincent Van Gogh voiceselfordinary Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well. Vincent Van Gogh atmospherecolorwine It is good to love many things Vincent Van Gogh If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true. Vincent Van Gogh succeedwould-bebelieve What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it. Vincent Van Gogh atmospheredistanceair It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it. Vincent Van Gogh pearlsriskmean I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination. Vincent Van Gogh sleepgivingideas I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too. Vincent Van Gogh powerfulmenart When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling. Vincent Van Gogh typicaldrawingfeelings 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. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Vincent Van Gogh fightingheartorder Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems] Vincent Van Gogh tearsmeditationreality If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass. Vincent Van Gogh intelligentwiseart I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. Vincent Van Gogh piecesnatureyellow I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away. Vincent Van Gogh care Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. Vincent Van Gogh tasteartistimagination
