Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

We take death to reach a star

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

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, which is my life, the power to create.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

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

It is good to 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 well done.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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

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

La tristesse durera toujours.]

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

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 hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I thought I would be understood without words.

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

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

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

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

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

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

I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.

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

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

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