Vincent van Gogh Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Creativity

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Life, Risk

  Tags in Courage

• Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Looking

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cynicism, Skepticism, Living

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in God, Love

  Tags in Thing, Know

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Inside

• There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don’t k…

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feelings, Thinking

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art, Religion

  Tags in Stars, Terrible

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Silenced, Cannot, Means, Then, Within, Paint, Hear, Say, Voice, Will

• 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.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Will

• You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Childhood, Say, Will

• The majority of (painters), because they aren’t colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting, With

• I wish they would only take me as I am.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Would

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thinks

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Still

• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Love

  Tags in About, Think, Realize

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

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Must

• For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don’t care for anything else; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once, and I become melancholy when I cannot go on with my work. I feel then as the weaver does wh.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Feel

Vincent van Gogh (71)

Birth:	30th March, 1853
Death:	29th July, 1890
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Painter

About

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

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