Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
- Vincent Van Gogh
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
- Vincent Van Gogh
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- 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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
- Vincent Van Gogh
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
- 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.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
- Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- 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
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
- Vincent Van Gogh