Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

The great artist is the simplifier.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

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

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

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

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

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

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

Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

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

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

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

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

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

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.