Vincent van Gogh Quotes (23 quotations)

1. Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is now wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul. - Vincent van Gogh

2. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. - Vincent van Gogh

3. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent van Gogh

4. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh

5. Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh

6. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh

7. Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. - Vincent van Gogh

8. How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? - Vincent van Gogh

9. I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. - Vincent van Gogh

10. I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream. - Vincent van Gogh

11. I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. - Vincent van Gogh

12. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent van Gogh

13. I wish they would only take me as I am. - Vincent van Gogh

14. If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. - Vincent van Gogh

15. 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. - Vincent van Gogh

16. If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. - Vincent van Gogh

17. 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

18. It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. - Vincent van Gogh

19. Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. - Vincent van Gogh

20. Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. - Vincent van Gogh

21. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. - Vincent van Gogh

22. Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future. - Vincent van Gogh

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

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