Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh

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.