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
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.
Yellow is capable of charming God.
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.