Quotes: Vincent Van Gogh

"I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone."

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

"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly."

" The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."

" It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."