Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

What is done in love is done well.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

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.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.