Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

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.

Vincent Van Gogh

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it – keep going, keep going come what may.

Vincent Van Gogh

If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

Vincent Van Gogh

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

Vincent Van Gogh

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.

Vincent Van Gogh

If one hasn’t a horse, one is one’s own horse.

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

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one’s love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

Vincent Van Gogh

If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

Vincent Van Gogh