Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

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.

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

I wish they would only take me as I am.

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

Conscience is a man's compass.