50 Vincent van Gogh Quotes About Art and Life

1. "I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners."

2. "Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life."

3. "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process."

4. "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."

5. "And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go."

6. "I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."

7. "Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

8. "Art is to console those who are broken by life."

9. "An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."

10. "I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

1. "If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."

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

3. "There is peace even in the storm."

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

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

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

7. "If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?"

8. "How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"

9. "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

10. "In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."

11. "It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."

12. "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

13. "Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."

14. "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."

15. "I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

1. "Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

2. "I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream."

3. "If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."

4. "There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

5. "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."

6. "I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

7. "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

8. "If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."

9. "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

10. "Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."

11. "When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."

12. "The best way to know God is to love many things."

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

14. "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."

15. "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."

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

2. "There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

3. "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

4. "I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

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

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

7. "Conscience is a man's compass."

8. "It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."

9. "The sight of stars makes me dream."

10. "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"