Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

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Vincent Van Gogh

Profession : Painter

Birth : March 30, 1853

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh

The way to know life is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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 am, which is my life, the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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