1853-1890, Dutch-born French Painter
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Deeds and Good Deeds]
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Love]
Conscience is a man's compass.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Conscience]
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Slavery]
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Mistakes]
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Achievement]
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Adventure]
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Arts and Artists]
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Painters and Painting]
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh – [Maturity]
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Mastery]
If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint? and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Self-talk]
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.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Arts and Artists]
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Love]
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Painters and Painting]
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Love]
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Sea]
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Love]
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
Vincent Van Gogh – [Color]
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh – [Courage]