Vincent van Gogh Quotes

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

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.

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

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

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

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.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

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.

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 am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’

Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Close friends are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

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

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

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 am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I am still so far from being what I want to be, but with each step I take, I get closer.

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

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