Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh

I wish they would only take me as I am.

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

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

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

Conscience is a man's compass.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.