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Vincent Van Gogh Quotes about Art

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Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Broken, Art Is

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Vincent Van Gogh
Life, Beautiful, Art
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Soul, Mind
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Outcomes, Sometimes

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

Vincent Van Gogh
Inspirational, Art, People
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 ...”

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Passion, Alive

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

Vincent Van Gogh
Gratitude, Art, Years

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Pieces, May

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

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

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
Art, Beauty Everywhere, Trying

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Men, Skills
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2271, Delphi Classics

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Vincent Van Gogh
Life, True Love, Art
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2259, Delphi Classics

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, People, Want

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

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

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Practice, Drawing
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 ...”

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Creativity, Enough
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 ...”

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Interesting, Important
Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.43, Courier Corporation

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Vincent Van Gogh
Faith, Art, Public Opinion
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Art demands constant observation.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Demand, Observation

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Drawing, Knows
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1612, Delphi Classics

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
Wise, Art, Distance

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Helping, Whole Life

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Men, Hands

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Strong, Knowing

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

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

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