Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

... life is too short to do the whole.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

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.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

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.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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

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

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.