Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

Love is something eternal... The aspect may change but not the essence.

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

How much sadness there is in life. Still, it won't do to become depressed, one should turn to other things, and the right thing is work, but there are times when one can only find peace of mind in the realization: I, too, shall not be spared by unhappiness.

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and "que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs." What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

I am so angry with myself because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

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

So don't study and swot too much, for that makes one sterile. Enjoy yourself too much rather than too little, and don't take art or love too seriously- there is very little one can do about it