Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

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.

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

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

Conscience is a man's compass.

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.

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.