People Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more artistic than loving people.

— Vincent Van Gogh

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but…

— 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…

— Vincent Van Gogh

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show…

— Vincent Van Gogh

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind…

— Vincent Van Gogh

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and…

— 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

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of…

— Vincent Van Gogh

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your…

— 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

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

— Vincent Van Gogh