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Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Vincent Van Gogh
Long Walks, Expression, Tree

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

Vincent Van Gogh
Melancholy, Pleasure, Drag

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Vincent Van Gogh
Valentines Day, Way, Fit
"Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Vincent Van Gogh
Heart, Wish, Difficult
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh
Inspiration, Science, Artist
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

Vincent Van Gogh
People, Comfort, Needs
Vincent Van Gogh (2003). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.437, Penguin UK

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

Vincent Van Gogh
Memories, Thinking, Glasses
Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”

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
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing, Return, Energy
Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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
Mind, Use, Way
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.130, Parkstone International

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
Love, Art, Real
Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Vincent Van Gogh
Real, Book, Artist
Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Regret, Color, Don't Regret

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

Vincent Van Gogh
Nature, Want, Sometimes
Vincent van Gogh, Douglas Cooper (1938). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.90, Courier Corporation

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

Vincent Van Gogh
Education, Chance, Teach

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
Fighting, Evil, Battle
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. 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; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Powerful, Mean
Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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
Dream, Stars, Dark

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

Vincent Van Gogh
Ugly, Want, Nasty

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
Jobs, Different, Opinion
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2764, Delphi Classics

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
Self, Voice, Ordinary

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
Art, Powerful, Men
Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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
Sleep, Ideas, Giving
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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
Distance, Air, Atmosphere
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1449, Delphi Classics

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

Vincent Van Gogh
Painting, Figures, Strokes

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