Words matter. These are the best Vincent Van Gogh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
The way to know life is to love many things.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
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.
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
I wish they would only take me as I am.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
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 great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?