37 Quotes By Vincent Van Gogh


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.
Vincent Van Gogh on love

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

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

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh on love

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh on men

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

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

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 nature

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.
Vincent Van Gogh on nature

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van Gogh on poetry

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 power

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

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 strength

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.
Vincent Van Gogh on strength

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.
Vincent Van Gogh on time

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

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh on work