Vincent van Gogh Quotes

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh painti...

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot...

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still chan...

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a pain...

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With...

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and ...

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a w...

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold o...

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put her...

I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.

I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot mis...

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my gre...

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific know...

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

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no l...

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feelin...

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and ca...

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

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passer...

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will ...

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it ...

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—t...

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more...

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines a...

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his...

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmos...

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a per...

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live mo...

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody...

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...

I thought I would be understood without words.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are ...

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered...

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one...

There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler ou...

Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Lo...

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, cha...

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to s...

Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some consid...

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier ...

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that hom...

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

The sadness will last forever.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or com...

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perform...

La tristesse durera toujours.]

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it...

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these...

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-...

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become s...

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can ...

Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire ...

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...

The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I hav...

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

There is peace even in the storm