677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

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

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

Ты сообщаешь, что ничего не делал на протяжении двух недель. Мне, конечно, знакомы такие периоды: они у меня тоже были прошлым летом, когда я работал над рисунком не непосредственно, а, так сказать, косвенно. Это такое время, когда проходишь через какие-то метаморфозы.

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

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

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.