Quotes About Gogh

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

What a mystery life is, and love is a mystery within a mystery. -Vincent Van Gogh

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.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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!

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it; till at last, someday, one perhaps doesn't stand up any more, que soit, but that is nothing extraordinary, and I repeat, in my opinion, such is the common.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Todas essas coisas, família, pátria, talvez sejam mais encantadoras na imaginação de pessoas como nós, que passamos muito bem sem pátria e sem família, do que em qualquer realidade.

della strana circostanza che Gauguin abbia preferito non parlarne più, mentre si eclissava

Estou bem estes dias, a não ser um certo fundo de vaga tristeza difícil de definir

the fear of madness passes from me considerably upon seeing from close at hand those who are affected with it, as I may very easily be in the future.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me.

But if Gauguin and his Jewish bankers came tomorrow and asked me for no more than 10 pictures for a society of dealers, and not a society of artists, on my word I do not know if I'd have confidence in it, though I would willingly give 50 to a society of artists.

It is possible that these great geniuses are only madmen, and that one must be mad oneself to have boundless faith in them and a boundless admiration for them. If this is true, I should prefer my insanity to the sanity of the others.

But I, for my part, am convinced that in this respect one can have faith in modern art. The fact that I have a definite belief about art makes me sure of what I want in my own work, and I shall try to reach it even at the risk of my own life.

I am in the middle of reading Balzac, César Birotteau. I will send it to you when I have finished it - I think I shall read the whole of Balzac again.

I hope when you go back to Holland you will take along some study of mine to decorate your room.

The Yellow House has never left the artist's estate. Since 1962, it has been held by the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, established by the artist's nephew, and is permanently housed in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

The more I think it over, the more I feel that is is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.