37 Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh


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

The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh on best

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh on courage

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.
Vincent Van Gogh on experience

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van Gogh on faith

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh on faith

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van Gogh on god

The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh on god

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh on god

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.
Vincent Van Gogh on god

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh on good

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh on great

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.
Vincent Van Gogh on great

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.
Vincent Van Gogh on great

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh on imagination

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh on knowledge

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

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