Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

I wish they would take me as I am.

Someday death will take us to another star.

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.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

If you don't have a dog--at least one--there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

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 will not live without love.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.

I'm such a nobody.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

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

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

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

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

What is done in love is done well.