Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

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

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.

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.

The way to know life is to love many things.