More from Vincent Van Gogh
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh The sadness will last forever.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh The more you love, the more you suffer.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh 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.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Someday death will take us to another star.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh There is peace even in the storm
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.
OshoOsho Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.
Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso