Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

Vincent Van Gogh

Biography

Type: Post-Impressionist painter

Born: 30 March 1853, Zundert, Netherlands

Died: 29 July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France

Vincent van Gogh is considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, although he remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves
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.

There is peace even in the storm

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

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

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never
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 always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

La tristesse durera toujours.
[The sadness will last forever.]

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things - the thought of God comes into one's mind.

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

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

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

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

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

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings - joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.

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

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

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

Dans chaque vie où de la pluie doit tomber, quelques jours seront sombres et lugubres – c'est vrai, il ne peut en aller autrement, et pourtant je me demande si le nombre de jours sombres et lugubres peut parfois devenir trop grand ? La lutte intérieure de Van Gogh: Sa vie, son œuvre et sa maladie mentale - Liesbeth Heenk

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

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

How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone.

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

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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 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.

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

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.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

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