Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

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

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

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

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

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

La tristesse durera toujours.]

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

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.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

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

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 must work and dare if one really wants to live.