677 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

I wish they would only take me as I am.

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

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.

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