Author of quotes: Vincent Van Gogh

What is art? This is reality, passed through the temperament of the artist.

Sometimes, to find your way, you need to swim.

I am becoming more and more convinced that the quality of the kitchen somehow affects our ability to think and create pictures: I, in particular, can not work successfully when my stomach is upset.

I have to be especially careful, because I'm the kind of person who can ruin everything with his inadvertence at the very moment when everything seems to be going well.

Friendship, brotherhood, love - this is the supreme force, here are the powerful charms that open the door of the prison.

When it comes to geniuses, it's ridiculous to puzzle yourself over who is higher and who is lower.

I've always loved Dora's words, "I have the patience of an ox." I see something good in them, a certain conviction and honesty; in short, these words have a deep meaning, they are the saying of a genuine artist. When you think of the people from whose hearts such words pour out, all the chatter about the "natural giftedness" that you so often hear from the dealers of paintings seems to me a vile croak. "I have patience" - how restrained and dignified it sounds! Such dealers in paintings will never say, even if not everything they say is like a crow's croak. "I'm not an artist" - how can you speak so harshly about yourself? Is it not possible to become patient, is it not possible to learn patience from nature, seeing how slowly wheat ripens, seeing how everything grows? How can you consider yourself so dead as to assume that you will never grow again? Is it possible to deliberately hinder one's own development? I say all this to explain why talking about whether you are gifted or not seems so silly to me.

What is drawing? How is it mastered? It's the ability to break through the iron wall that stands between what you feel and what you can do. How do you get through such a wall? In my opinion, it is useless to beat your head against it, it needs to be slowly and patiently dug up and sold.

I often think that night is busier and richer in colors than day.

I prefer to paint human eyes, not cathedrals, because there is something in the eyes that you cannot find in cathedrals ... the human soul.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

If I amount to something later, you mean something now. After all, wheat is wheat, even if at first people think it's just grass.

Life breaks even the strongest.

Children as animals - I see soul in the eyes.