Quotes by Vincent van Gogh

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

“I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.”

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

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

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

“Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.”

“I am seeking I am striving I am in it with all my heart.”

“I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.”

“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 may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.”

“I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.”

“Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.”

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