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Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Sublime, Sacred
Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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
Love, Differences, Romance
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

Vincent Van Gogh
Sketchbooks, Witness, Happens

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
Gratitude, Years, Earth
"Vincent Van Gogh".

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

Vincent Van Gogh
Blue, Yellow, Orange
Leo Jansen, Vincent van Gogh, Émile Bernard, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker (2007). “Vincent Van Gogh: painted with words : the letters to Émile Bernard”, Rizzoli

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
Character, Thinking, Two
"Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence".

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

Vincent Van Gogh
Order, Painting

At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.

Vincent Van Gogh
Easy
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.88, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

Vincent Van Gogh
Color, Two, Vibrations
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.74, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Jealous, Demand
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1588, Delphi Classics

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

Vincent Van Gogh
Long, Paint, Long Time

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
Heart, Eye, Men
Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

Vincent Van Gogh
Drawing, Corners, Poorest
"Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters".

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

Vincent Van Gogh
Men, People, Want
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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
Profound, Sublime, Trying
Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

Love is something eternal.

Vincent Van Gogh
Love Is, Eternal
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1895, Delphi Classics

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Jobs, Faults

I'll start with small things.

Vincent Van Gogh
Small Things

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh
Inspirational, Dream, Stars
Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

Vincent Van Gogh
Suffering, Alive, Kind

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist, Giving, Wish
Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Vincent Van Gogh
Horse, Ifs
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2150, Delphi Classics

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. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

Vincent Van Gogh
Woe Is Me, Ideas, Goal
Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Real, Artistic Life, Would Be

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?

Vincent Van Gogh
People, Interesting, Painting
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2676, Delphi Classics

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