3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh 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.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh 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.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh 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.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
