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 More Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh More Quotes From Vincent Van Gogh There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning. Vincent Van Gogh morning beautiful I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly". Vincent Van Gogh want people art Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph. Vincent Van Gogh mirrors reflection reality Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh making-mistakes get-up fall Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh strength love life If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole. Vincent Van Gogh distance wise art Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere. Vincent Van Gogh beauty-everywhere trying art ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? Vincent Van Gogh creativity enough art If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the Vincent Van Gogh carrying-on succeed and-love Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. Vincent Van Gogh mysterious language At times it is not easy for me to take up living again. Vincent Van Gogh easy The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent Van Gogh determination leadership life I wish they would take me as I am. Vincent Van Gogh take-me-as-i-am take-me wish I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir. Vincent Van Gogh debt gratitude years How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun. Vincent Van Gogh lovely sun yellow In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life. Vincent Van Gogh inspiration views heart There is no such thing as an ugly woman. Vincent Van Gogh ugly women funny At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know. Vincent Van Gogh paris distance believe Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained. Vincent Van Gogh giving night life Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues. Vincent Van Gogh artist flesh men