Vincent Van Gogh

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

— Vincent Van Gogh

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

— Vincent Van Gogh

“La tristesse durera toujours. [ The sadness will last forever. ]”

— Vincent van Gogh

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings…

— Vincent Van Gogh

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from…

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to…

— Vincent Van Gogh

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we…

— Vincent Van Gogh

At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“How I wish we could spend a couple of Christmas days together, for instance — I would also dearly like to have…

— Vincent van Gogh

What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well… Love is the best…

— Vincent van Gogh

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

— Vincent Van Gogh

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

— Vincent Van Gogh

To know life, one must love many things.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

— Vincent Van Gogh

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

— Vincent Van Gogh