Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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

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

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

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

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they 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 sadness will last forever.

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

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.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

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

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

Someday death will take us to another star.

We take death to reach a star