Nature Van Gogh Quotes

#1. It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Antonin Artaud

#2. Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

#4. I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Vincent Van Gogh

#5. It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

Vincent Van Gogh

#7. It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

Vincent Van Gogh

#8. Art is but imitation of nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

#10. When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.

Vincent Van Gogh

#11. To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

Vincent Van Gogh

#12. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

#13. Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

#16. Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

Vincent Van Gogh

#17. When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh

#18. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Vincent Van Gogh

#19. If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

Vincent Van Gogh

#20. I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.

Vincent Van Gogh

#21. The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

Vincent Van Gogh

#22. And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Vincent Van Gogh

#23. 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.

Vincent Van Gogh

#24. Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Vincent Van Gogh

#25. 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.

Vincent Van Gogh

#26. Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

#27. One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

Vincent Van Gogh

#28. I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

Vincent Van Gogh

#29. Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

#30. One can never study nature too much and too hard

Vincent Van Gogh