Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

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

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

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

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

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

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

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

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

There is peace even in the storm

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

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

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

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

What is done in love is done well.

So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

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

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

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

If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

The more you love, the more you suffer.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

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.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

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

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.