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 don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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.
Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you