“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”
More from Vincent van Gogh on Art
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
“One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.”
“Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.”
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”
John Keats
10 quotes“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peop...”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
Ansel Adams
7 quotes“A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful...”
Ezra Pound
7 quotes“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”