Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

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

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.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

The way to know life is to love many things.

The more you love, the more you suffer.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

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

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

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

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.

I will not live without love.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!

In trees, I see expression and soul

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.