Vincent Van Gogh Want Quotations

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

You have first to experience what you want to express.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

You have to first experience what you want to express

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

In a painting I want to say something comforting.

If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.