Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history.

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

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

I will not live without love.

—Vincent Van Gogh

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—Vincent Van Gogh

Someday death will take us to another star.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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.

—Vincent Van Gogh

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

—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

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

—Vincent Van Gogh

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

—Vincent Van Gogh

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

—Vincent Van Gogh

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly pay-check, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

—Vincent Van Gogh