A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
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.
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.
Vincent Van Gogh

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh

Conscience is a man's compass.
Vincent Van Gogh

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
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.
Vincent Van Gogh

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
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

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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.
Vincent Van Gogh

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Vincent Van Gogh

I wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent Van Gogh

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh