Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

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 found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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 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