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Vincent Van Gogh Quotes about Painting

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I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Vincent Van Gogh
People, Facts, Painting
Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Vincent Van Gogh
Artist, Soul, Painting

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Vincent Van Gogh
Light, Darkness, Painting

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

Vincent Van Gogh
Order, Painting

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

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

Vincent Van Gogh
Color, Painting, Bones

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

Vincent Van Gogh
Mistress, Study, Painting
James Smith, Vincent van Gogh (2001). “Essential Van Gogh”, Parragon Incorporated

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

Vincent Van Gogh
Painting, Importance, Painter
H. R. Graetz, Vincent van Gogh (1963). “The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh”, London, Hudson

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

Vincent Van Gogh
Sunflower, Enthusiasm, Painting

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

Vincent Van Gogh
Feelings, Painting, Intimacy

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Vincent Van Gogh
Ideas, Painting, Abundance

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.

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

Vincent Van Gogh
Painting, Figures, Strokes

Painting demands an intelligent model.

Vincent Van Gogh
Intelligent, Demand, Painting

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Painting, Like You
Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

Vincent Van Gogh
Art, Painting, These Days
Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1662, Delphi Classics

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh
Deeds, Painting, Should

I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.

Vincent Van Gogh
Intelligent, Demand, Painting

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