Top 836 Van Gogh Quotes & Sayings

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

I've always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

I have Van Gogh's ear for music

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

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

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

I want to be remembered. I want to have a legacy. Van Gogh only sold one painting before he died, which would mean that he wasn't famous when he was alive. But in 2017, I know who Van Gogh is.

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, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh.

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.