37 Best Vincent Van Gogh Quotes (PASSION)

Top 15 Most Famous Vincent Van Gogh Quotes (STARS)

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

It is good to 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 well done. — It is good to **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 well done.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. — I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me **dream**.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. — I **dream** my painting and I paint my dream.

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

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. — I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to **learn** how to do it.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. — When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. — It is looking at things for a long **time** that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

22 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes on Passion and Love (NATURE)

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — If you truly love **nature**, you will find beauty everywhere.

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — I have **nature** and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — What would life be if we had no **courage** to attempt anything?

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. — There is nothing more truly artistic than to **love** people.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — I would rather die of **passion** than of boredom.

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.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. — Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure **harmony** and **music** inside me.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

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

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. — Close **friends** are truly life’s treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves.

With gentle honesty, they [friends] are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. — With gentle **honesty**, they [friends] are there to guide and support us, to share our **laughter** and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'. — I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. — I always think that the best way to know God is to **love** many things.

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

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Vincent van Gogh Short Biography

Born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands, Vincent Willem van Gogh was a painter and is considered one of the most famous figures in Western art.

In 1869, van Gogh became an apprentice to Goupil and Co., a company of art dealers, stirring his passion for art.

After experiencing some personal heartbreak, van Gogh yearned to enter the ministry. While at Belgium for missionary work he experienced his first spiritual crisis due to the poverty and hardship he had seen. Van Gogh decided to give away all his earthly possessions.

In 1880, after he was dismissed by the church for his actions, he found his true calling as an artist. He first studied drawing in the Brussels Academy in 1881 and later moved to the Netherlands and began his work with nature.

Van Gogh began to work and experiment with oil paint in 1882. By 1884, van Gogh became surer in his art and began capturing still life, landscape, and figures in his work. At the beginning of 1888, van Gogh’s Post – Impressionist style was established.

Van Gogh’s artistic career only lasted 10 years, from 1880-1890, but within this time he had produced nearly 900 paintings.

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