Top 425 Quotes & Sayings by Vincent Van Gogh - Page 8

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.