Vincent Willem van Gogh was a dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. These inspirational Vincent Van Gogh Quotes will provoke your thoughts and mind.
Best Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
- “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The great artist is the simplifier.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The sunflower is mine, in a way.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me…a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Love is something eternal.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “So, let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “One must work and dare if one really wants to live.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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“If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Art is to console those who are broken by life.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “In spite of everything, I shall rise again” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “There is peace even in the storm” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I never get tired of the blue sky.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “What is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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“But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Only when I fall do, I get up again.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Yellow is capable of charming God.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “There is no such thing as an ugly woman.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “You have first to experience what you want to express.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Art demands constant observation.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me and reminded me that there are good things in the world.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Someday death will take us to another star.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.” – Vincent Van Gogh
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“I am always doing what I can’t do yet in order to learn how to do it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “The more you love, the more you suffer.” – Vincent Van Gogh
