Quotes from 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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
- Vincent Van Gogh
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
- Vincent Van Gogh
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
- Vincent Van Gogh
If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
- Vincent Van Gogh
To know life, one must love many things.
- Vincent Van Gogh
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
- 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 absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.
- Vincent Van Gogh
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
- Vincent Van Gogh
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
- Vincent Van Gogh