Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh

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.

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

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

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.

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

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

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

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

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.

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

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

I wish they would only take me as I am.

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

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

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.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

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

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.