Vincent van Gogh Quotes

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

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

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

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.