Vincent Van Gogh

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

Vincent Van Gogh

But for one’s health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Vincent Van Gogh

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven’t yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it …

Vincent Van Gogh

Conscience is a man’s compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one’s course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Vincent Van Gogh

Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored.

Vincent Van Gogh

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

Vincent Van Gogh

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Vincent Van Gogh