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I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh
Inspirational, Dream, Art
"Fictional character: Vincent Van Gogh". "Loving Vincent", www.imdb.com. 2017.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Vincent Van Gogh
Lonely, Art, Remember
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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”

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

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

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Men, Fellow Man
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.17, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the 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 tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.

Vincent Van Gogh
Gratitude, Art, Years

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent Van Gogh
Beautiful, Art, Autumn
Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Wall, Iron
H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Fields, Laborers

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Taken, Mean
Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Nature, Reality
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

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

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
Wise, Art, Intelligent
Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Giving Up, Mean

And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Comforting, Want
"The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin".

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Would Be, Opinion
Vincent van Gogh (1988). “Van Gogh: A Retrospective”, Park Lane Enterprises

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Firsts, Painting
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Color, Promise
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2871, Delphi Classics

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Sky, Lamps

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”

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”

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”

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Moving, People

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Order, Color

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