Vincent van Gogh Quotations
“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
“I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people”
“The way to know life is to love many things.”
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore”
“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.”
“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”
“How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?”
“I wish they would only take me as I am.”
“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 . . . .”
“I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars."
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
“You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.”
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
“The more I think about it,the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others”
“It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.”
“I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.”
“Conscience is a man's compass”
“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”
“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”
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.”
“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”
“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
“Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shed”
“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.”
“I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...”
“There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”
“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.”
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore”
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