Best Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Vincent Van Gogh Quotes About Art, Love, Starry Night, Instagram, Stars, Nature, Beauty, Sunflowers, Death & Creativity! Vincent Van Gogh is generally known as one of the most famous post-Impressionist artists, despite the fact that he was not well recognized during his lifetime. Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert, Holland, on March 30, 1853. In 1869, he began working for an international art-dealing corporation in the Hague. He started a letter-writing exchange with his younger brother Theo, which lasted the remainder of Van Gogh’s life.
Van Gogh’s job led him to London and Paris, but he was dissatisfied with the work and was fired in 1876. Having spent some time as a teacher in England, he became a preacher in a mining hamlet in southern Belgium, when he developed a strong interest in Christianity.
At the age of 27, he chose to pursue a career as an artist in 1880. With Theo’s assistance, he taught himself how to sketch and paint while moving from place to place. In 1886, Van Gogh traveled to Paris with Theo and met many notable painters, among them Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro, and Gauguin. Impressionism had a tremendous impact on his work, resulting in a lighter, more ethereal feel. There were a lot of self-portraits created during this time.
Van Gogh relocated to Provence, in southern France, in 1888, when he created his renowned ‘Sunflowers’ series, which is still in existence today. He passed away on July 29, 1890. Even though van Gogh did not live for long, he was able to create as many as 900 pieces of art in 10 years.
Best Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
1. “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
2. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent Van Gogh
3. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent Van Gogh
4. “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” – Vincent Van Gogh
5. “Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.” – Vincent Van Gogh
6. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh
7. “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
8. “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” – Vincent Van Gogh
9. “I’m drawing a great deal and think it’s getting better.” – Vincent Van Gogh
10. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
11. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
12. “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh
13. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” – Vincent Van Gogh
14. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” – Vincent Van Gogh
15. “I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
16. “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.” – Vincent Van Gogh
17. “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent Van Gogh
18. “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent Van Gogh
19. “Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.” – Vincent Van Gogh
20. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
21. “I now consider myself to be at the beginning of the beginning of making something serious.” – Vincent Van Gogh
22. “Occasionally, in times of worry, I’ve longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no—just let me be myself—and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.” – Vincent Van Gogh
23. “I’ll start with small things.” – Vincent Van Gogh
24. “As you can see, I am immersing myself in color—I’ve held back from that until now; and I don’t regret it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
25. “I assure you that there’s a lot involved in compositions with figures. … It’s like weaving… you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.” – Vincent Van Gogh
26. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
27. “Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.” – Vincent Van Gogh
28. “I haven’t got it yet, but I’m hunting it and fighting for it, I want something serious, something fresh—something with soul in it! Onward, onward.” – Vincent Van Gogh
29. “Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.” – Vincent Van Gogh
30. “I’ve just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.” – Vincent Van Gogh
