The 50 best phrases of Vincent Van Gogh

A misunderstood genius. This is perhaps the best adjective to describe Vincent Van Gogh, one of the greatest exponents of the post-impressionist movement, which ended up being his personal stamp in his paintings full of amazing landscape lines with lines of intense and bright colors.

However, despite his talent, his life was somewhat tragic due to the emotional and psychological alterations that he suffered, such as depression and psychotic episodes, which led him to take his own life and not be able to see how his works became the most coveted in the world of art. With this selection of the best quotes from him, we want to pay tribute to his figure.

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Iconic Vincent Van Goh Quotes

To remember his works and his genius in painting, as well as to have an approximation of the vulnerability of his life, we bring this compilation of phrases of his authorship.

1. I have absolute faith in art.

A man whose passion for his work took him far.

2. When I feel a need for religion, I go out at night and paint the stars.

Everyone can have his own religion.

3. Better to be daring even if many mistakes are made than to be narrow-minded and overly cautious.

A very wise reflection that we must take into account.

4. It is good to love many things, because that is where strength lies, and he who loves a lot does a lot and can achieve a lot, and what is done with love is well done.

So he loves without hesitation from what you do to the people around you.

5. If you hear a voice inside you that says “you cannot paint”, paint by all means and that voice will be silenced.

The best way to defeat our insecurities.

6. I confess that I don't know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

And what makes you dream?

7. Suffering without complaint is the only lesson we must learn in this life.

We will always have mistakes, the important thing is not to succumb to them.

8. I, for my part, am determined to have no other weapons than my brush and my pen.

The artist's pacifist spirit is shown here.

9. Fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm is terrible. But that does not prevent them from going to sea.

Any dream that we want to realize will be full of obstacles and difficulties.

10. Small emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without knowing it.

It is impossible not to succumb from time to time to our emotions.

11. There is nothing more truly artistic than loving people.

Loving is an art and a talent.

12. What would life be like if we didn't have the courage to try something new?

The best thing about each day is that it is a new opportunity.

13 What color is in a painting, enthusiasm is in life.

All colors have an emotional hue.

14. Keep your love towards nature, because it is the true way of understanding art more and more.

Nature and art go hand in hand.

15. Sometimes it is convenient to go out into the world and visit men because one feels obliged and called there, but he who prefers to remain alone and calmly in the work and only would like to have very few friends, he is the one who circulates with more security among men and the world.

It is common for artists to have a withdrawn essence.

16. If we perfect ourselves in one thing and understand it well, we also acquire the understanding and knowledge of many other things.

It is useless to learn a little about each thing if we cannot master any of them.

17. I dream of painting and then I paint my dreams.

Dream big and then do your best to live it.

18. How much beauty in art, in order to retain what has been seen. So you are never without work or truly lonely, never alone.

A beautiful manifestation about art.

19. I have put my heart and soul into my work and have lost my mind in the process.

It is also somewhat common for old painters to have some mental condition.

20. Find all that you can be beautiful; most do not find anything beautiful enough.

The beauty is in the simple things that not everyone can see.

21. Never let the fire of your soul go out, but rather enliven it.

It is from within us that the motivation to continue comes.

22. Art is combat. In art it is necessary even to risk one's skin.

Talking about competitiveness in art.

23. All my days are not lucid enough to write to you with any logic.

Interesting sentence of the painter about his emotional state.

24. Of course, for art, where time is needed, it would not be a bad thing to live more than one life.

We all have that desire to live longer.

25. I'd rather die of passion than boredom.

We should all prefer this.

26. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things put together.

Every great event and result comes from small accumulated actions.

27. I always hope to find something in there, in the study of color.

Van Gogh was passionate about colors.

28. If one remains faithful lover of what is really worth loving, and not an insignificant residue of love and unworthy and meaningless things, he will get more happiness and grow stronger.

An important reflection on love and fidelity that walk together.

29. There is in almost every man a poet who died young and whom man survived.

A reference to the loss of that playful spirit.

30. Consciousness is the human compass.

It is what allows us to act well and despise acts of evil.

31. I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

A beautiful way to be close to God.

32. Paintings have a life of their own that is born from the soul of the painter.

Many works reflect something of the artist.

33. You have to work and dare if you really want to live.

We must stay in the dynamic rhythm of life.

34. Precisely because I am looking for a true friendship, it is so difficult for me to resign myself to a conventional friendship.

Never settle for a half friendship. Friends are the family we choose.

35. I have a period of terrifying clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

A reference about reality versus his way of interpreting it.

36. Drawing is fighting to cross an invisible iron wall that seems to rise between what you feel and what you are capable of doing.

Drawing is one of the greatest ways to achieve catharsis.

37. I often think that the night is more alive and with more colors than the day.

This thought was clearly demonstrated in his painting of the starry night.

38. There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

There is no sadness without joys.

39. Be clearly aware of the stars and the infinity of heights. So life seems almost haunted after all.

Nature is a huge source of inspiration.

40. Love always brings difficulties, it is true, but it gives energy.

Love keeps us working, but it gives us great rewards.

41. Suffering is what leads artists to express themselves with greater energy.

Thousands of artists have found a muse in suffering.

42. Art is man added to nature.

Only art has the ability to unite man and nature.

43. It seems absurd to me that men want to appear other than what they are.

Why is there that need to imitate instead of being the best version of themselves.

44. A great fire burns within me but no one stops to warm up in it, and passersby see only a wisp of smoke.

Not everyone is able to see our potential.

45. Success is sometimes the result of a whole series of failures.

It's about keep trying and learning from every mistake.

46. Do you know what makes jail disappear? Every genuine and deep affection. Being a friend, brother, lover, is what frees us from prison. Without these affections, one is dead. But each time these affections are revived, life is reborn.

Love and empathy give us freedom.

47. It is necessary to have loved, then to lose love and then to love again.

Not because a relationship has not worked does it mean that we should close ourselves off from love.

48. Poetry is everywhere, but putting it on paper is, unfortunately, more complicated than seeing it.

Not everyone understands the meaning of poetry.

49. I'm always doing what I can't do yet, to learn how to do it.

It never hurts to learn something new.

50. Normal is a paved road: It is comfortable to walk on, but no flowers grow on it.

That is why it is important to appreciate our differences and bet on daring to change.