Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolationof loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of thingsthe though...”

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

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

“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

“Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well.... Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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...”

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I thought I would be understood without words.”

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

“We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: He is the one. But you, too, will begin to learn that ...”

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

“A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.”