Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by symbolic colourisation and dramatic, impulsive and highly expressive paintwork. He sold only one painting during his lifetime and...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth30 March 1853
CityZundert, Netherlands
If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones...
Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
The sadness will last forever.
Drawing is the root of everything.
The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
There is no such thing as an ugly woman.