Vincent Van Gogh

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation-of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things-the thought of God comes into one’s mind.

Vincent Van Gogh

It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too…

Vincent Van Gogh

It interests me tremendously to make copies… I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one’s youth.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn’t easy to paint oneself either.

Vincent Van Gogh

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.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is not only by one’s impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to… The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

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.

Vincent Van Gogh