Vincent Van Gogh

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

Vincent Van Gogh

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

Vincent Van Gogh

The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore.

Vincent Van Gogh

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

Vincent Van Gogh

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s fling from time to time, smoke one’s pipe, and drink one’s coffee in peace.

Vincent Van Gogh

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

Vincent Van Gogh

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Vincent Van Gogh