Vincent Van Gogh

Close friends are truly lifes 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.

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

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.

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

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

If you hear a voice within you say, ˜You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

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 think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even "the French air clears up the brain and does good "a world of good.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Love is eternal the aspect may change but not the essence.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

Yellow is capable of charming God.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

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.

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

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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.

What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity must it not be our ambition to become men

It is good to love many things for therein lies the true strength and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much and what is done in love is well done.

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.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I think that I see something deeper more infinite more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Keep going keep going come what may.

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

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.

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

Conscience is a mans compass.

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

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.

As practice makes perfect I cannot but make progress each drawing one makes each study one paints is a step forward.

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

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

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.

Lets not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

Someday death will take us to another star.

Love many things for therein lies the true strength and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much and what is done in love is done well.

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless yes it is a thing that must be good whatever the world may say it cannot be wrong.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun.

Conscience is a man's compass.

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

The great artist is the simplifier.

There may be a great fire in our soul yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it and the passers by see only a wisp of smoke.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.