96 quotes
"Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"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 done well."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"I feel there is nothing more artistic than loving people."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"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 done well."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"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."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence."
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"“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 done well.”"
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence"
- Vincent van Gogh
Love
"I well knew that one could break one’s arms and legs before and that then afterward that could get better, but I didn’t know that one could break one’s brain and that afterward that got better too."
- Vincent van Gogh
Awareness
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
- Vincent van Gogh
Awareness
"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."
- Vincent van Gogh
Awareness
"I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too."
- Vincent van Gogh
Awareness
"The night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
- Vincent van Gogh
Awareness
"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."
- Vincent van Gogh
Awareness
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
- Vincent van Gogh
Compassion
"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.”"
- Vincent van Gogh
Compassion
"To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong."
- Vincent van Gogh
Compassion
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
Compassion
"I wish they would only take me as I am."
- Vincent van Gogh
Self-awareness
"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."
- Vincent van Gogh
Self-awareness
"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."
- Vincent van Gogh
Relationships
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Courage
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
- Vincent van Gogh
Courage
"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Courage
"If you hear a voice within you say “You cannot paint.” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Courage
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
- Vincent van Gogh
Courage
"The fisherman knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
- Vincent van Gogh
Courage
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'"
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced"
- Vincent van Gogh
Motivation
"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Motivation
"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
Hard Work
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."
- Vincent van Gogh
Hard Work
""Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.""
- Vincent van Gogh
Hard Work
"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
Success
""For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.""
- Vincent van Gogh
Success
"The sunflower is mine, in a way."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"The great artist is the simplifier."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colours enough to paint the beautiful things I see"
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."
- Vincent van Gogh
Creativity
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
- Vincent van Gogh
Resilience
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Learning
"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Self-confidence
"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Self-confidence
"If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Self-confidence
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Self-confidence
"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."
- Vincent van Gogh
Faith
"I always think the best way to know God is to love many things."
- Vincent van Gogh
Faith
"Love a friend, a wife, whatever you like. Then, you will know there is a God."
- Vincent van Gogh
Faith
"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced"
- Vincent van Gogh
Belief in Self
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Belief in Self
"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Belief in Self
"If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
Belief in Self
"I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly."
- Vincent van Gogh
Connection to Earth
"There is peace even in the storm."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inner Peace
"One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning."
- Vincent van Gogh
Ambition
"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."
- Vincent van Gogh
Ambition
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on Earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."
- Vincent van Gogh
Ambition
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom"
- Vincent van Gogh
Ambition
"I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."
- Vincent van Gogh
Insight
"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward."
- Vincent van Gogh
Persistence
"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
- Vincent van Gogh
Reflection
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
- Vincent van Gogh
Learning from Mistakes
"…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
- Vincent van Gogh
Contentment
"… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"
- Vincent van Gogh
Contentment
"Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow."
- Vincent van Gogh
Originality
"Normality is a paved road. It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Originality
"Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow."
- Vincent van Gogh
Originality
""Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.""
- Vincent van Gogh
Achievement
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
Achievement
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together"
- Vincent van Gogh
Achievement
"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."
- Vincent van Gogh
Bravery
"I dream my paintings, and then they paint my dream."
- Vincent van Gogh
Imagination
"If one feels the need for something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Spirituality
"If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."
- Vincent van Gogh
Nature