8 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes on Painting

Vincent Van Gogh quotes on painting

40. I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

41. I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

75. Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

84. The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

85. The painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but as you know the Impressionists have already got a stronger color than Manet. This painter of the future- I can't imagine him doing the rounds of the local dives, having false teeth and frequenting the Zouave brothel like me.

87. There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

89. What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

99. Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land.